On 5 June 2010 at 02:32:03 Tony Li sent: > > > But there is one certain point of intersection of addressing, forwarding and > > path selection: > > As clear an address shows a node's topological location, that much it > > facilitates hop by hop path selection to that node, says: decision making > > for > > forwarding, sequentially. > > > > So why not just embed next hops in an address: locator? > > > So then the locator is basically a detailed path that has to change anytime > there's a topology change along the path.
Yes. But having named nodes as hops, the topology change is not just a link change, but change in the sequence of nodes. This naming is meant to be within a routing domain and from a starting node, so it's actually maintenance of a default path tree. > Tony > > > Regards Toni _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
