Re: mobility (and multicast...)

Paul Tsuchiya <tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com> Tue, 19 January 1993 15:15 UTC

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From: Paul Tsuchiya <tsuchiya@thumper.bellcore.com>
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To: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk, pip@thumper.bellcore.com, tuba@lanl.gov
Subject: Re: mobility (and multicast...)

>  
>  3. i believe mobility should be _integral_ in routers and not involve
>  more processes/servers etc....if hierarchical multicast addressing and
>  routeing are in place, i think something could evolve that is very
>  clean....

Hmmmmm.  Next time I'm in London, we'll have to hash this out.

I believe that mobility should be completely transparent to routers,
and should be handled at the edges......

>  
>  anyhow, sorry to cross post, just thinking out loud...

as usual.....  :-)

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