On 17 Jun 2010, at 11:19 , Paul Jakma wrote:
> I don't think ILNP changes the notion of "locator" at all.
> The "address" continues to have a topological component
> as far as routing is concerned.
Disagree.
ILNP does NOT have the concept of an 'address'.
Instead, ILNP splits the atom into 2 separate objects,
one for identity only and the other for location only.
With ILNP, routing uses only Locators, never Identifiers.
> ILNP provides a clear line as to what part of the address
> may be considered for topological routing. Changes beyond
> that are just host-side, to decouple ULPs from the locator
> portion - that's intrinsically a good thing, methinks.
>
> Ratifying an L/I split, and that ULPs should not bind the
> I to any L for ILNP seems intrinsically a good thing.
> It would not prejudice any routing work, I think.
Thanks very much.
> I ask this because it would be good to strive for maximum
> compatibility as much as possible. E.g. it'd be nice if
> ILNPv6 sockets would have IPv6 addresses and could be used
> to accept IPv6 connections, and connect out to legacy IPv6.
> There are a lot of details here that don't yet seem to be
> fully described.
This is well covered already. For example, please
go read draft-rja-ilnp-intro-03.txt, Section 8.
> Also, it's perhaps unfortunate that the links on the main
> ILNP to some of the more detailed papers go to academic journal
> paywalls. It would be good if there were direct links
> to the PDFs concerned.
I just double-checked on the project web site.
For the benefit of others that web site is at:
<http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk>
With 1 exception, all papers there already *are* direct
links to local copies of the PDFs concerned.
The links throughout the project page are organised with
the most recent publication date at the top of each section,
which is common practice for academic web sites of this sort.
(The project web site is at: http://ilnp.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk)
So the plural quoted above ("links") seems to have been a typo.
As discussed before on this list, that one link (to Springer-Verlag)
is for a journal paper that the authors' can NOT put out directly,
due to legal (e.g. copyright) restrictions from the journal publisher.
Yours,
Ran Atkinson
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