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.


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