Dear all, We have had a very nice discussion in the previous thread about what kind of features we would want from the Internet. We wanted to come back on another interesting point that has been raised during the side meeting held during IETF 112, namely is where the innovation happening? During the discussion in the side meeting, there was a short exchange between Dino, arguing about “decentralization”, and Michael stating that we are “rebuilding the edges”; the importance of the role of overlays was also briefly mentioned. This is not a simple question, and may lead to an architectural argument, in line with Dirk K.’s viewpoint that only such architecture discussion may lead to possible changes to addressing, but also something that emerged in the previous thread. However, let’s at least start from the addressing perspective. Rebuilding the edges and utilizing decentralization may point to some approach to addressing that is not governed by a common addressing scheme. For instance, could we instead see a diversity of limited domain specific addressing schemes with most effort in ‘addressing’ being placed into the context translation that will need to inevitably happen? Or shall we instead follow the current path that forces the same context (IP semantics) to all participating edges (which goes counter the ‘rebuilding the edges’ comment)? Hence the question we would like to discuss with you on: how/where innovation, realizing the features discussed in the previous thread, should happen? This can help in strengthening the conclusion of the Problem Statement document (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jia-intarea-scenarios-problems-addressing/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jia-intarea-scenarios-problems-addressing/>), in order to provide input on which way to tackle the problem. Luigi (on behalf of the co-authors)
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