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Re: [RRG] Consensus check: mapping granularity

Dimitri,
The identifier to locator mapping function MUST support 
mapping entries
for aggregates of identifiers. It MAY also support mapping 
entries for

host identifiers.


i suggest to refine the requirement: one is the nature / structure of
the identifier itself, the other is in terms of scalability
("aggregation" of identifiers), and the last one in terms of ID-to-Loc
mapping function.
I agree, we should describe what the identifiers are and how they can be aggregated. Then another requirement can specify how the mapping will work. 


Hi Tony and Olivier,
Does this requirement imply that the identifier must be a 
hierarchical label

(not flat label) so as to be aggregatable?
I don't think that a hierarchy is necessary. What is required is a mapping system that deals with blocks of identifiers and not with individual identifiers. 

agreed. aggregates of identifiers shall be defined though to complete
the initial requirement. what's relationship between block & aggregate
of identifiers ?


From my viewpoint block=aggregate


Olviier

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