Excerpts from Mark Handley at 10:47:08 +0000 on Fri 28 Nov 2008: > However, once you have multi-path capable transport, then this opens > up the option of doing smarter things for path discovery to try and > ensure diversity. The goal then is to specify these mechanisms in > such a way that they can operate self-contained with whatever > addresses and paths they're given, or to give better results when > you add extra path choice mechanisms in the future. > > Overall though, it remains a research question as to how much path > diversity is needed overall to realize the benefits of resource > pooling, and this is what we are currently starting to examine.
The first problem is initialization of your knowledge. You send some sort of probe to each of the target's locators. You get some packets back. How do you establish that those are not attacks? Do you need to have your responses come from the same locators you sent the initial queries to? The second problem is maintenance. What percent of your packets go to knocking on the door of an apparently dead locator? Multiply that times the number of apparently dead locators belonging to endpoints with active sessions. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
