Hi Steven,

>>    We recommend further work on automating renumbering because even with
>>    ILNP, the ability of a domain to change its locators at minimal cost
>>    is fundamentally necessary.  No routing architecture will be able to
>>    scale without some form of abstraction, and domains that change their
>>    point of attachment must fundamentally be prepared to change their
>>    locators in line with this abstraction.
> 
> I heartily agree that further work on automatic renumbering is needed.
> However, ILNP could be deployed with ULAs and border locator translation
> in the edge network, so it would not be strictly accurate to suggest
> that automatic renumbering technology is a deployment dependency.


You are correct, it's not a requirement, but there is a large segment who
have religious objections to border locator translation (i.e., NAT).  Thus,
some form of renumbering really is a requirement in the long run.

Tony


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