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

In einer eMail vom 02.07.2008 23:43:24 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt bill@herrin.us:

Layer-3 addresses presently describe two characteristics of the
endpoint: its network location and its identity. In a clean slate
environment, it is not obvious to me that path-selection need know
anything about the identity part; it need only know about one of the
network locations.

Right. I'd call it "learning from the postman".A letter isn't checked at the ingress postal office whether it is deliverable or not (whether the receiver has or has not moved to some other place). Instead it is forwarded to the egress postal office without such checking. No attempt is made neither as to inform, world-wide, any postal office when someone moves to another place. Every year many new residential areas are going to be developed, but no postman has ever complained about an (increasing) scalability problem.

Heiner

PS: The RRG may invite Dublin's postmen and ask them for advice. However,it might happen that they can't provide good advice.The reason: They might be confused after getting a quick update about the last year's RRG-mailinglist discussion :-)