[rrg] Agenda request: Presentation on new host stack architecture

[Christian Vogt]

On Nov 3, 2008, Christian Vogt wrote:

> Shortly before the previous RRG meeting in Dublin, I had proposed a  
> new
> host stack architecture as one step towards solving the routing
> scalability problem.  The idea was to move the existing indirection
> between hostnames and IP addresses from its current position at the
> application layer down to the IP layer.  Applications and transport
> protocols would thus exclusively work with hostnames, and IP addresses
> would be dealt with only at the IP layer.  I would like to let the  
> group
> and the program committee know that I am now working on a concept  
> paper
> describing this new stack architecture in more detail, and that I  
> would
> like to present this at the RRG meeting in Minneapolis. [...]


Dear program committee and RRG folks,

finally, here is a link to the concept paper on the new hostname- 
oriented
host stack architecture, which I described in earlier emails:

http://users.piuha.net/chvogt/pub/2008/vogt-2008-hostname-oriented-stack.pdf

I am very interested in your opinion about it.

- Christian