Re: [homenet] Updates to Homenet Architecture Principles doc

[Juliusz Chroboczek <[e-mail]>]

> But what is the routing supposed to accomplish?

Good point.

The role of the routing protocol is to provide good enough end-to-end
connectivity often enough, where good/often enough is defined by user
expectations.

> Rapid convergence has been mentioned.

That's an implementation technique for achieving "often enough".

(OSPF converges extremely fast, but doesn't offer any guarantees about
what happens before convergence.  Babel converges slower, but is usually
able to route packets correctly before it converges: Babel uses
a different implementation technique to achieve "often enough".)

> Load sharing?

That's an implementation technique for achieving "good enough".

> Path redundancy?

That's an implementation technique for achieving "often enough".

I would suggest that the problems we've been having with the Arch document
are due to describing implementation techniques rather than the expected
result.

-- Juliusz