RE: [RRG] On "jack-down" models

[Randall Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

Earlier, Tony Li wrote:
% At the risk of simply summarizing what Pekka and others have said, the key
% point that I'm getting from this is: mobility is aided by having an endpoint
% identifier.  To Scott's question, it need not be in the network layer.  It
% can also exist purely in a session layer, but some identifier is necessary
% so that there can be some continuity of correspondence.

Similarly, such a mechanism can also help enable both node multi-homing
and site multi-homing, for roughly the same reasons.

(I don't think this is a shock to anyone, since this likely was in the minds
of the folks at the IAB Workshop that started this group on its current path.)

Ran


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