Re: [rrg] Another Routing RG Straw Poll

[Tony Li]

On 5/22/10 11:11 PM, "Dae Young KIM" <dy...@cnu.ac.kr> wrote:

>     - All this can be done without padding locators (or addr of subnet
> router) to each packets. Packets carry only node address and AS numbers
> instead, the latter not being used within an AS but only to be used for IDR.
> 
>     - The penalty is that we deal with flat node addresses.


The other penalty is that inter-domain routing now is running on a flat
4-byte number. Routing now needs to scale to 2^32 items and scales linearly
with the number of organizations in the network.

Tony


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