>-----Original Message----- >From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:44 AM >To: Templin, Fred L >Cc: Routing Research Group >Subject: Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 & mass >adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users > >On 16 sep 2008, at 17:40, Templin, Fred L wrote: > >>> There still needs to be a box that takes an IPv6 packet and decides >>> where that packet should go based on its destination address and >>> therefore this box needs to run a protocol to learn which address >>> prefixes go where. > >> Call that box a LISP ITR, e.g., and the decision of where >> the packet goes is based on resolving an IPv6 EID to an >> IPv4 RLOC. That is a mapping function; not routing function. > >Wouldn't a rose by another name be just as unscalable?
Eh? AFAICT we have the global DNS as an example of scalable mapping and the global BGP as a counter-example of scalable routing. Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
