>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >William Herrin >Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 5:09 PM > >On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Scott Weeks<[email protected]> >wrote: >> I hope this is acceptable to post here... >> >> I just finished the book "Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return >to Fundamentals" by John Day and was going through the 'Documents and >Publications' section of pouzinsociety.org where I found this: "A >Challenge for Researchers" - >http://02d7097.netsolhost.com/images/A_Challenge_for_Researchers.pdf >> >> Knowing there is a researcher or two on this list ;-) I wanted to >forward it onto the group. To me (an operator interested in the >architecture of the internet and its future, not a researcher) it's a >very interesting idea! > > >Hi Scott, > >This came around back in April and I asked: > >http://www.irtf.org/mail-archive/web/rrg/current/msg04922.html > >If anyone offers an answer, I'll take another look. Until then, John >has a vaguely interesting idea but we have no shortage of vaguely >interesting ideas here and it's not our role to show whether or why an >incomplete concept can't be completed. >
I read the book several months ago, and immediately convinced several colleagues to as well. Most have found it very enlightening as it explains fundamentally what networking is, and only holds IP or CLNP up as examples compared to that. Day's PNA is more than "vaguely interesting" as it (correctly) factors networking functions into the common primitives that recurse throughout all of the existing stacks in use, and differences between layers as policy rather than protocol. It further develops naming & resolution of processes within a Distributed IPC Facility (DIF) / layer, and describes just what you asked for in intimate detail. If you read the book, your question is clearly answered both in text and in the diagrams that show nesting and layering of DIFs, however, I doubt anyone is going to take the time to transcribe the book into email for your benefit ... --------------------------- Wes Eddy Network & Systems Architect Verizon FNS / NASA GRC Office: (216) 433-6682 --------------------------- _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
