RE: [RRG] yetAnotherProposal: AS-number forwarding

[Xu Xiaohu <xuxh@huawei.com>]

> Xiaohu:
> The main advantage of using the ASN+location+SID namespace is to
> enable both topological and geographical aggregation, and help in
> reducing route geographical stretch.
> Note that GIRO is *not* a loc/id separation solution, but just a
> different way of organizing the bits in the address and announcing in
> BGP only the relevant bits for inter-domain routing. The 2nd half of
> GIRO address is also a locator to route pkts inside the dest ASN.
> This means that all mapping can be easily done trough DNS by querying
> the  dest host name to get the full GIRO address, in the same way
> hosts are looked up in current Internet.
> 
Ricardo,

Thanks a lot for your clarification.:)

Best wishes,
Xiaohu XU



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