[Int-area] draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Dear Int-area

As attached below, i have written up an idea about why and how variable-length
addresses in the network layer would be useful for many limited domain internetworks,
but also how they could provide a simple and easily extensible framework to
add additional semantics (the likes of multicast, BIER, ICN), and also make it easier 
to express the programmability that SRv6 introduced.

Would very much welcome discussion/feedback, and will be asking for a slot
to present/discuss this int-area 111.

Note that the -00 writeup is mostly inspirational for what i think the cool
things one could do with it are and to explain the concepts.

Obviously, if/when there is interest in this
direction, the harder work of figuring out how to best introduce this
incrementally, and ideally backward compatible into existing networks wold
be the next big set of items to work out.

Cheers
    Toerless

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 01:00:25PM -0700, [e-mail] wrote:
> A new version of I-D, draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Toerless Eckert and posted to the
> IETF repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets
> Revision:	00
> Title:		Functional Addressing (FA) for internets with Independent Network Address Spaces (IINAS)
> Document date:	2021-07-12
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		30
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets/
> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eckert-intarea-functional-addr-internets
> 
> 
> Abstract:
>    Recent work has raised interest in exploring network layer addressing
>    that is more flexible than fixed-length addressing as used in IPv4
>    (32 bit) and IPv6 (128 bit).
> 
>    The reasons for the interest include both support for multiple and
>    potentially novel address semantics, but also optimizations of
>    addressing for existing semantics such as unicast tailored not for
>    the global Internet but to better support private networks / limited
>    domains.
> 
>    This memo explores in the view of the author yet little explored
>    reasons for more flexible addresses namely the problems and
>    opportunities for Internetworking with Independent Network Address
>    Spaces (IINAS).
> 
>    To better enable such internetworks, this memo proposes a framework
>    for a Functional Addressing model.  This model also intends to
>    support several other addressing goals including programmability and
>    multiple semantics.
> 
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> 
> 
> The IETF Secretariat
> 

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