Re: Fundamental Design Choices in IDPR

Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> Mon, 04 May 1992 23:05 UTC

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From: Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: idpr-wg@bbn.com
Subject: Re: Fundamental Design Choices in IDPR
Cc: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu

	Oh, in addition to those, I'd like to point out that there are a
number of fundamental design choices *I* didn't agree with, which led me to
not put much energy into this WG.
	They are:

1) Application of this protocol at the inter-AS level only, routing to
AS's, not all the way down to individual network interfaces, rather than
a unified routing architecture which would dispense with IGP's and EGP's.

2) (Sort of a result of the first.) Routing in a single level address
space only, without handling a tree structured hierarchical address
space and the ensuing abstraction issues, which to me are the most
difficult (and most interesting).


	Noel