Re: IP namespace

Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr> Fri, 15 May 1992 07:34 UTC

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From: Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@sophia.inria.fr>
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To: Anders Karlsson <sak@cdg.chalmers.se>
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Subject: Re: IP namespace
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Anders Karlsson writes:

>I have been playing around with the directory as a tool for
>registering NSAP's.  With NSAP's I don't think there is the same need
>for a "longest match" search. The reason for this is that NSAP's (at
>least those we deal with) have a lot of "natural" points for delegation.

Humm. NSAP may have a lot of natural points of delegation, but the NSAP syntax
does not reflect this. The syntax per se can only be used to split the network in
two part - IDP and DSP. There is no unique way to split the DSP in many parts;
there are a number of proposed formats, e.g. ISODE, ECMA, IS-IS. But all these
tend to be IDP dependant. A "longest match" approach has at least the advantage of
simplicity!

Christian Huitema

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