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Re: Thoughts about layering multi-addressing

Pekka Nikander wrote:

Something like the following?

                 +----------------+  +--------------+
                 | SHIM unaware UL|  | SHIM aware UL|
                 +----------------+  +--------------+
                         ^                   ^
                         | ULIDs only        |
                         v                   |
     Admin       +----------------+          |
     interface-->| "Policy" subL  |          | ULIDs+locators
                 +----------------+          |
                         ^                   |
                         | ULIDs+locators    |
                         v                   v
                 +----------------------------------+
                 |               SHIM               |
                 +----------------------------------+
                                  ^
                                  | locators only


Well, it could also be that the same ULP can choose whether to annotate the ULIDs with locators, and not have different types of ULPs always doing the same thing.

But other than this detail it looks right.

   Erik