Re: Yakov Rekhter's comment on IDPR architecture

Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu> Fri, 15 May 1992 21:12 UTC

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Date: Fri, 15 May 92 17:01:58 -0400
From: Noel Chiappa <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9205152101.AA29900@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
To: B.Kumar@cs.ucl.ac.uk, msteenst@bbn.com
Subject: Re: Yakov Rekhter's comment on IDPR architecture
Cc: idpr-wg@bbn.com, jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu

	You've got your own map (everyone has a map). You can use whatever
algorithm you want to create the route (just like everyone driving cars gets
to pick their own route to wherever they are going). If you want to try and
find an optimal path, information is included in the map to allow you do that.
However, if the map contains new markings which you don't understand because
your software is old, you may not be able to find the best path, but you can
probably find a good path (it's impossible to quantify this without a
topology to ask the question about).

	Noel