[77068] in North American Network Operators' Group
At the risk of being declared off topic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jan 12 13:27:20 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:26:44 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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I realize that this is more of an IETF issue than a NANOG one, but, I'd
like to find a couple of people with some protocol background and a strong
operational background that would be interested in trying to see if we
can come up with a way to develop a version of IP which did not require
a flag day, but, would facilitate a transition towards an IP where the
End System Identifier (Host Address) could be globally unique to a given
system (think PI space) and essentially a layer 4 construct, but, the
Routing Tag (Network Address) could, instead, be dynamically determined
and separate information.
I'm thinking along the lines of a new protocol which could look up an
End System Identifier against a local server and receive a response
which was a list of valid Routing Tags for that destination. Sort
of a cross between DNS and ARP. I don't want to ignore security and
would like to see at least the option if not requirement to crypto-
sign the information.
Ideally, I'd like to find a couple of people in the Bay Area so we
can get together for a white-board discussion. I've got a few ideas
rattling around in my head about how it might work, but, I'd like
to collaborate with some others before proposing something to IETF.
I figured NANOG was a good place to start looking for OP-EX relevant
to this issue.
Thanks,
Owen
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If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
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