Re: quality of v6 connections [Re: unmanaged scope comments]

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

> >Routing is independent of addressing.
> 
> No, it's not.  :-)
> 
> Seriously, I hear this statement a lot, and it is pretty clear to me
> that routing is not independent of addressing, since IPv4 and IPv6
> both imbed topological routing information in the address prefixes.

that, and the best strategy we know of for making it scale is to
do topological aggregation.   

which is not to say that we couldn't have addresses that were completely
independent of topology - we'd just need to propagate a rather large 
address-to-location mapping table to all of the routers along with the 
routing table.  

Keith