Tony Li allegedly wrote on 11/11/2009 4:28 AM: > Lixia Zhang wrote: > >> 2/ most importantly, I was calling attention to Postel's comments on >> slides 7 & 8: these quotes were taken from the meeting minutes then: >> >> - “Transport layer ID is not an issue that we >> need be concerned with for now. Once we >> decide what to do for IP addresses, then >> transport people can easily figure out how >> they may use the address.” > > > Well, what we already know is that we want our routing tokens to be > changeable. We need hierarchy in the address space to provide > scalability. We have seen that we need to form that hierarchy on the > topology, otherwise we have to morph the topology to fit the hierarchy, > and morphing the topology is expensive. So when a host changes its > position in the topology, the routing token needs to change. > > Unfortunately, that breaks the transport connection. > > We already understand enough about the routing token and the transport > token to understand that we need to fix this overloading.
But it's not routing's problem that transport misuses location-dependent information. Lixia's quote is quite true. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
