[rrg] [RRG] ILNP Critique - completely impractical due to need for host changes

[slblake at petri-meat.com]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:52:33 +1100, Robin Whittle <rw at firstpr.com.au>
wrote:

>                  ILNP and any other proposal which involves host
>                  stack changes, and worse-still application changes,
>                  is a complete non-starter for the practical problem
>                  of solving the routing scaling problem.

Routing scales just fine; the problem is addressing.  And it is not just a
practical problem, it is architectural.

> 
>                  ILNP may be of theoretical interest, as a
>                  clean-slate proposal.  However, I am only interested
>                  in discussing practical solutions.

I thought the Internet was the "smart host, dumb network".  If things are
so ossified that we cannot envision host changes in the future, then we
really are screwed.

Just guessing, but it is quite likely that 80% of the hosts that will be
operating 5 years from now don't exist yet.  The software 90% of them will
be running surely doesn't exist yet.  What is practical and what isn't
depends on your timeframe of interest.


Regards,

// Steve