> However, I still think that engineering considerations favour 
> network-based
> for the initial deployment - and have since the 1980s; an 
> advanced routing
> system which I worked on back then used the same approach, 
> and for exactly
> the same reasons. The vast increase in the size of the host 
> installed base
> since then has only reinforced the case for starting with 
> network-based
> deployment.
> 

Noel,

I'd note that (most?) of the host based schemes for loc-id split seem to
add network middle boxes to aid in their initial deployment (hip-proxy,
shim6-proxy, et al).  So it seems reasonable to me to accept this and
start by optimizing for this case and move to the hosts over time.

-Darrel
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