2010.10.22 пет 21:49:10 Dmitri Krioukov: > folks, the lack of consensus is quite expected. > putting many low-level details aside, the deep > reason for that is the following, i think. > > it occurred to me in some off-line discussions here, > that folks are still looking for scalable routing > which would work for any possible network topology. > as mentioned way back in > http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1273445.1273450 > scalable routing for arbitrary networks cannot > exist. in fact, it's intuitively easy to see, > but it's also a proven fact, like a theorem. > therefore the task of building a scalable routing > solution for *arbitrary* networks cannot succeed > in principle. the only option is to look for > solutions which would work only for *specific* > networks, e.g., the global internet :)
... establish inter-domain path selection as the solution for global internet routing. > such solutions > may be efficient and scalable if they find a way > to intelligently utilize network peculiarities. > > best, > -- > dima. > http://www.caida.org/~dima/ > > > _______________________________________________ > rrg mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg > _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
