Hi,

I think Tony makes an excellent point.   The main purpose of this work is to 
compress the SRv6 header.  I agree with Tony that the w.g. should focus on the 
solution that provides the best header compression.

Bob


> On Sep 16, 2021, at 3:23 PM, Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We now seem headed to be adopting both the requirements and analysis drafts 
> and thoughts start to turn towards the debate for selection.
> 
> The requirements draft has done a good job documenting our requirements and 
> the analysis draft gives us a perspective on how the various proposals 
> fulfill those requirements, but a deeper nuance is needed to guide us to 
> making an optimal choice.
> 
> To that end, it seems to me that three of the requirements are paramount:
> 
> - Encapsulation Header Size
> - Forwarding Efficiency
> - State Efficiency
> 
> Of these three, Forwarding Efficiency and State Efficiency seem like they 
> will be overcome by hardware technology.  Continued growth in semiconductors 
> will help us scale here, so the remaing requirement of the Encapsulation 
> Header Size would seem to predominate, and we should therefore optimize for 
> that.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony
> 
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