Hi Toerless, Thanks for the interesting post! I'm glad to see that our ICNP paper was cited in the draft. Actually, we have published a more confined draft focusing on the IoT/edge network scenarios where shorter addresses is preferred for the sake of overhead and power. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-song-ship-edge/ It works in a limited domain, but interoperable with the public Internet. I think it could be a solid starting point to explore more potentials.
Cheers, Haoyu -----Original Message----- From: Int-area <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Toerless Eckert Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Int-area] draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt Dear Int-area As attached below, i have written up an idea about why and how variable-length addresses in the network layer would be useful for many limited domain internetworks, but also how they could provide a simple and easily extensible framework to add additional semantics (the likes of multicast, BIER, ICN), and also make it easier to express the programmability that SRv6 introduced. Would very much welcome discussion/feedback, and will be asking for a slot to present/discuss this int-area 111. Note that the -00 writeup is mostly inspirational for what i think the cool things one could do with it are and to explain the concepts. Obviously, if/when there is interest in this direction, the harder work of figuring out how to best introduce this incrementally, and ideally backward compatible into existing networks wold be the next big set of items to work out. Cheers Toerless On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:00:25PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > A new version of I-D, > draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt > has been successfully submitted by Toerless Eckert and posted to the > IETF repository. > > Name: draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets > Revision: 00 > Title: Functional Addressing (FA) for internets with > Independent Network Address Spaces (IINAS) > Document date: 2021-07-12 > Group: Individual Submission > Pages: 30 > URL: > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Farchive%2Fid%2Fdraft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt&data=04%7C01%7Chaoyu.song%40futurewei.com%7C3c81596a99d3460cf2e508d94589927c%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C1%7C637617279468801601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ExCIn44YmRXtiKiszaMHFj3imh0jCsNdSoysc72gssg%3D&reserved=0 > Status: > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fdraft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets%2F&data=04%7C01%7Chaoyu.song%40futurewei.com%7C3c81596a99d3460cf2e508d94589927c%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C1%7C637617279468801601%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2FUkLzyyg7odcV6bzonjqG%2BBR3CcJNGnMVyUbFWM7w6o%3D&reserved=0 > Htmlized: > https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets&data=04%7C01%7Chaoyu.song%40futurewei.com%7C3c81596a99d3460cf2e508d94589927c%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C1%7C637617279468811569%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=0zd8Rddiznht1FkA2CriwibvoF%2F22ZoDprWfamk4ffM%3D&reserved=0 > > > Abstract: > Recent work has raised interest in exploring network layer addressing > that is more flexible than fixed-length addressing as used in IPv4 > (32 bit) and IPv6 (128 bit). > > The reasons for the interest include both support for multiple and > potentially novel address semantics, but also optimizations of > addressing for existing semantics such as unicast tailored not for > the global Internet but to better support private networks / limited > domains. > > This memo explores in the view of the author yet little explored > reasons for more flexible addresses namely the problems and > opportunities for Internetworking with Independent Network Address > Spaces (IINAS). > > To better enable such internetworks, this memo proposes a framework > for a Functional Addressing model. This model also intends to > support several other addressing goals including programmability and > multiple semantics. > > > > > > The IETF Secretariat > -- --- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fint-area&data=04%7C01%7Chaoyu.song%40futurewei.com%7C3c81596a99d3460cf2e508d94589927c%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C1%7C637617279468811569%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=6wISfAX8txApQpGt4ab8GVIEK3i3QrQyZb1vMooeX%2FA%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
