Keith Moore wrote: > ... > mainly I want a solution to the problem. apps need to be able to do > address referrals and right now the algorithm for selecting > which address > to use is little better than a guess. anything we can do to > make this > faster or more reliable is a good thing, and SLs with > site-ids are better > for this than SLs without site-ids.
I don't agree with the stated requirement. While I agree that apps need a way to do referrals, what says that has to be done using addresses rather than name strings? Clearly referrals using IPv4 addresses can't work today, so any app that needs to do a referral will have to use a name. What about IPv6 changes that? Is it simply to save the receiver of the referral from having to resolve an address? If so that is a bogus application design, because the referrer can't know that it has all the possible addresses for the target. Even if it got the full list from DNS, it can't know that the target didn't update DNS since it retrieved the list. In short you are looking to optimize the wrong part of the system and the resulting application failures will leave it no better than it is in an IPv4/NAT world. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
