[157107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address length technical design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Fri Oct 5 21:55:44 2012
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:55:41 -0400
From: David Miller <dmiller@tiggee.com>
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
In-Reply-To: <506F8532.4050803@mtcc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/5/2012 9:11 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 05:25 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
>> 5. Bits is bits.
>>
>> I don't know how to say that more clearly.
>>
>> An ipv6 address is a string of 128 bits with some segmentation
>> implications (net part, host part.)
>>
>> A host name is a string of bits of varying length. But it's still just
>> ones and zeros, an integer, however you want to read it.
>
> Wasn't David Cheriton proposing something like this?
>
> http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/triad/
>
> Mike
Not exactly. TRIAD is a proposal for distributing content names using a
new routing protocol (in addition to existing routing protocols instead
of as a replacement for existing routing protocols) such that one could
"Route a content request, based on its name, toward the closest server
for that name."(1)
The actual forwarding of packets/requests would continue to use IP.
TRIAD addresses issues with namespace size using Explicit Aggregation
into collections. (2)
-DMM
1. http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/slides/triad-content-netseminar/img15.htm
2.
http://gregorio.stanford.edu/papers/contentrouting/node9.html#SECTION00041000000000000000
