>-----Original Message----- >From: Christian Vogt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:50 AM >To: Routing Research Group Mailing List >Cc: Noel Chiappa >Subject: [rrg] Maybe it's not "either-or": Considering a host/network-basedsolution pair > >[Forked from: "Fundamental objections to a host-based scalable routing >solution"] > > >Christian Vogt wrote: > >> [...] As I have tried to explain in Minneapolis, a hostname-oriented >> stack architecture would mitigate these issues [...] > >I should have been more elaborative for those who couldn't make it to >Minneapolis: > >Assuming that the goals of RRG are to enable multi-homing and to >eliminate renumbering in a scalable manner: The argument I brought >forth in Minneapolis was NOT that these goals could be fully solved with >a host-based solution. The suggestion was instead for RRG to consider a >pair of host-based plus network-based solution. Since the two goals are >independent of each other, they may well be best addressed with separate >solutions: It is obvious that renumbering can be eliminated only with a >network-based solution. And as previous email discussions indicate, >multi-homing may best be enabled with a host-based solution. In fact, I >don't see a convincing technical reason to address both goals with a >single solution. Trying to do that would simply make our job harder. > >Regardless of which solution pair is picked, the solutions in the pair >would have to be independent of each other. A mutual dependency between >host upgrades and network upgrades would impose deployment hurdles, >which in my opinion would be insurmountable. But if each solution in >the pair provides benefits independently of the other, and if those >benefits are complementary, then the solution pair may deployment-wise >well be superior to a single one-size-fits-all solution.
That matches what I was saying yesterday: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rrg/current/msg03834.html but it seems to me that the RRG's attitude has been one of "let's take care of the network, and let the hosts take care of themselves". Maybe I'm wrong... Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >- Christian > > >_______________________________________________ >rrg mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
