Hello Sebastian, Yes, they have a mapping mechanism. Please read draft-penno-alto-protocol-01.txt.
The protocol does not assume the mapping works only for PIDs. It is independent of the NL-ID type. It could be ASN, PID, OSPF Areas, etc. The query can resolve any NL-ID into another. Let me know if it is not clear from reading the spec. Thanks, Reinaldo On 4/23/09 2:59 AM, "Sebastian Kiesel" <[email protected]> wrote: > You are right, basically my question is not limited to ASNs. However, > so far ASNs were the only proposed kind of identifiers, which do not > have an immediate meaning to a P2P entity (such as IP prefixes) and > which do not have a mapping mechanism to IP prefixes *as part of the > proposed ALTO protocol specification* (such as PIDs). _______________________________________________ alto mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/alto
