> On Feb 25, 2022, at 12:02 AM, Toerless Eckert <t...@cs.fau.de> wrote:
>
>> Abstract
>>
>> Routing and addressing are inexorably tied, and the scalability of
>
> ^
> Nit:
> prepend "In the Internet architecture"
>
> E.g.: If we would have a better architecture, including LISP, we would
> arguably have a less than inexorable tie... i think.
There are only so many ways to determine paths, e.g.:
- by the structure of the address itself
- by flooding, at least until you cache a path
- by knowing what flooding would have accomplished, e.g., by ‘global knowledge’
of the network topology
We use all three in the Internet (longest prefix, ARP/LISP, and RIP/OSPF,
respectively).
“Better” is relative; structure is more efficient and scalable but harder to
manage, flooding is least efficient and scalable but requires no management,
and global knowledge is a bit of a balance between the two.
Or is there some other “better” you’re imagining?
Joe
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