Wasn't Noel Chiappa Nimrods "father" ?
He explained his philosophy to me in an interview a decade ago as
well as why he believed that BGP was not sustainable.
yet here we are still chugging along
meanwhile back to your operational flows ;-)
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On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
now, the proposal put forward lo these many moons ago to avoid any
possibility of a routing change was, as I recall, Nimrod, and the
Nimrod architecture called for variable length addresses in the
network layer protocol and the use of a flow label (as in "IPv6
flow label") as a short-form address in some senses akin to a
virtual circuit ID.