Re: [RRG] clarification of locators, IDs, IP addresses

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

Excerpts from Lars Westberg on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 08:28:31AM +0100:
> I am pretty confused when it comes to the definition of the problem.
> If I understand it correctly, the main idea to solve a future
> problem of site-multihooming. But, when I am trying to follow the
> discussion, a set of very complex solutions are suggested.
> 
> Currently, the transit backbone are built on a "connectionless"
> approach whithout states.  Do we intend to build a new dynamic and
> statefull routing architecture?
> 
> I understand that the granularity of "one address" per provider is
> not enough, but that can easily be solved by assign a set of
> adresses to a provider. The main problem I see lying in the
> assumption to have dynamic mapping tables instead to have a simple
> mapping rule. 

Multihoming is a significant issue but not the only one.  See
draft-irtf-rrg-design-goals.

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