In einer eMail vom 07.05.2009 13:48:12 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [email protected]:
[email protected] allegedly wrote on 05 07 2009 5:03 AM: > > Toni, > An important question is: what means "routable" ? Is an address routable > because it is "summarizable" ? Most IETF-folks think so, whereas I do > not. IMHO, neither a HIT, nor an IPv4/6 address nor an AS number is > routable. Well,wrt these, just IPv4/6 unicast addresses are > summarizable. Your proposal tends towards E.164 (enum inverse :-), right ? Anything that names a point of attachment to the network is "routable". "Routable" just means that information about its topological location can be propagated and used by forwarding. The reason we say that location naming has to follow topology is for aggregation. Yes, but for a very high price: update churn, table size, Moore's law made unapplicable. Heiner
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