In einer eMail vom 11.11.2008 09:51:36 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Nov 11, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Imagine the following: IP packets are forwarded down to the (egress) > router (to which the destination user is somehow attached) without > looking at the destination IP address ! This also means: the > destination information may be what so ever: an IPv4 address, an > IPv6 address, or even a USER NAME !! Wouldn't this fit to your > proposal perfectly? Heiner, are you thinking of forwarding packets based on the destination hostname while the packet is within an edge network? That could, of course, be an extension to the proposal I am making. Yes. My saying since 45 is of course that there is no reason to route based on worldwide user reachability information dissemination, i.e. that this scalability problem can be eliminated completely. Provided: Each DFZ router has a consistent view of a well-sparsed internet topology, while knowing the geo-locations of all viewed nodes, and the geolocation related to the IP packets' destination which should be the geolocation of that router toward which forwarding shall/could be done without looking at the destination IP address. That router is - normally - a router of the service provider at the service provider's site. Behind that point routing could either be done traditionally, i.e. based on the destination IPv4 resp. IPv6 address or based on something else like: e.g. host name or E.164 without DNS mapping, or... or...or... And of course also based on geolocation information of an intra-domain edge network. The proposal right now, however, uses IP addresses for routing; the hostnames are included only in the first packets of a connection in order to sync the two peers. I know. Heiner
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