Re: Nimrod is still ugly - was: NATs *ARE* evil!

V Guruprasad <prasad@watson.ibm.com> Mon, 18 December 2000 12:10 UTC

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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:09:12 -0500
From: V Guruprasad <prasad@watson.ibm.com>
To: "J. Noel Chiappa" <jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Nimrod is still ugly - was: NATs *ARE* evil!
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> If you find a way to select paths in real networks using only virtual data,
> we'd all be interested to hear it.

Try draft-guruprasad-addressless-internet-00.txt, and
the ECUMN'2000 paper on which it was based, at
	http://affine.watson.ibm.com/tmp/vinet.pdf

The draft doesn't yet mention the log(N) bounds on the routing complexity,
but I did try to explain that real addresses are obviated at all levels. 
A detailed comparison of addressing and addressless principles is yet to
be made, hopefully soon in the next revision and/or paper.

-p.