Hi all, I think there's a case to be made that layer 3 itself is the problem, not the details of an addressing scheme [1]. (That reference predated QUIC, but I think the main conclusions stand.) A more radical solution like NDN [2] may be needed.
[1] https://doi.org/10.1145/2602204.2602215, a.k.a. https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/CCR-201404-IPaddrHarmful.pdf [2] https://named-data.net Regards Brian Carpenter On 13-Jul-21 08:00, [email protected] wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > > > Title : Functional Addressing (FA) for internets with > Independent Network Address Spaces (IINAS) > Author : Toerless Eckert > Filename : draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt > Pages : 30 > Date : 2021-07-12 > > Abstract: > Recent work has raised interest in exploring network layer addressing > that is more flexible than fixed-length addressing as used in IPv4 > (32 bit) and IPv6 (128 bit). > > The reasons for the interest include both support for multiple and > potentially novel address semantics, but also optimizations of > addressing for existing semantics such as unicast tailored not for > the global Internet but to better support private networks / limited > domains. > > This memo explores in the view of the author yet little explored > reasons for more flexible addresses namely the problems and > opportunities for Internetworking with Independent Network Address > Spaces (IINAS). > > To better enable such internetworks, this memo proposes a framework > for a Functional Addressing model. This model also intends to > support several other addressing goals including programmability and > multiple semantics. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets/ > > There is also an htmlized version available at: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00 > > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > > _______________________________________________ > I-D-Announce mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce > Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
