Dear Dino:
0) I was made aware of a post of yours on Int-Area with the above
caption:
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/int-area/fUlWayIT8xNPQ-z6nJvE70jnRbM/
1) The discussion mentioned a couple HuaWei colleagues who invited me
to be a coauthor on their work entitled "Internet Addressing - Problem
Statement and Gap Analysis" that was presented at IETF 113 this past
week. That connection was more about the "numbering scheme" than the
"overlay network architecture" in specific of your thread.
2) Upon brief read of your thread, the following:
"... You would get a random address allocated out of 240.0.0.0/4
and so would I. ...I would have to tell you my EID, so you can ping it
and the system would connect us (even through NATs). ... "
essentially describes a process of creating an "electronic
WhitePages" for registering and publishing compatible routers, then use
"high-usage trunks" (static links) to make the predetermined connection
between specific routers, instead of the common Internet practice of
listening for router availability announcements followed by dynamic mesh
routing. Since (most of) current Internet routers drop packets with
240/4 addressing, a group of people can communicate utilizing 240/4 as
long as they can find one another to establish their own overlay network.
3) I believe that our proposal, EzIP (phonetic for Easy IPv4) may be a
general purpose solution to the above techniques that you have been
discussing. EzIP approach can establish a world-wide collection of RAN
(Regional Area Networks) that "enclose" the entire current Internet for
providing parallel Internet services with its own set of conventions and
practices (pick and choose desirable resources, while avoiding those
with negative effects). Please have a look at the below whitepaper and
let me know your thoughts, so that we may close the loops.
https://www.avinta.com/phoenix-1/home/RevampTheInternet.pdf
Regards,
Abe (2022-03-25 15:15 EDT)
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