RE: [RRG] Long term clean-slate only for the RRG?

[Peter Sherbin <pesherb@yahoo.com>]

> As has been remarked before, routing and addressing are
> fundamentally inseparable...

It seems right but what is the basis for that statement? Does anyone has a mathematical formula that proves it?

Thanks,

Peter


--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:

> From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
> Subject: RE: [RRG] Long term clean-slate only for the RRG?
> To: "'Noel Chiappa'" <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, rrg@psg.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 9:33 PM
> [Catching up...] 
> 
> |    > I think the RRG has only focused on loc/id split
> and 
> |really hasn't gone
> |    > into greater depth with other routing
> architectures.
> |
> |Ah, I don't consider the location/identity split a
> 'routing 
> |architecture'.
> |It's an ancillary aspect of the overall system
> architecture, 
> |one which has at
> |best some influence on particular desired operational
> goals 
> |having to do with
> |routing (e.g. provider independence).
> |
> |To me, routing architectures are about things like
> 'what 
> |entity choses the
> |path the packets flow along', and 'how are those
> paths 
> |computed', 'what data
> |does that computation need', 'how is that data
> distributed', etc.
> |network-sized-mapping-database.
> 
> 
> As has been remarked before, routing and addressing are
> fundamentally
> inseparable, and indeed our charter is to explore both
> routing and
> addressing architectures.  To my mind, a locator/identifier
> split is a major
> change in the addressing architecture that will
> fundamentally change the
> scalability of the routing subsystem.
> 
> If folks have other tricks up their sleeve that result in
> improved routing
> scalability, that's certainly most welcome.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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