On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:52:33 +1100, Robin Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ILNP and any other proposal which involves host > stack changes, and worse-still application changes, > is a complete non-starter for the practical problem > of solving the routing scaling problem. Routing scales just fine; the problem is addressing. And it is not just a practical problem, it is architectural. > > ILNP may be of theoretical interest, as a > clean-slate proposal. However, I am only interested > in discussing practical solutions. I thought the Internet was the "smart host, dumb network". If things are so ossified that we cannot envision host changes in the future, then we really are screwed. Just guessing, but it is quite likely that 80% of the hosts that will be operating 5 years from now don't exist yet. The software 90% of them will be running surely doesn't exist yet. What is practical and what isn't depends on your timeframe of interest. Regards, // Steve _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
