On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Dan Lanciani wrote: > No, this is exactly the fallacy that leads to failure. There is no need > for summarization of routes because there is no need for any given node > to have a complete picture (even summary) of the topology. The whole point > of distributing the routing task is to make the resources available for > routing grow in aggregate at least as quickly as the consumers of those > resources. As soon as you start looking at summaries of the whole table > you focus resource usage for the whole net on individual nodes again.
Dan, Would you mind collecting the old ideas (which you mentioned went back to 1999), honing them perhaps a bit (if they need a polish) and putting them out as a short Internet-Draft? I'm interested at the proposal, but I'd really like to see the definite picture of it, and I think that's the only way we can do it. Thanks, -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
