Re: ROLC Overview

[Juha Heinanen <[e-mail]>]

one could also separate the next hop resolution problem from the address
resolution problem.  

when i saw about two years ago that nhrp has its problems, i proposed a
simple, scalable protocol called nbma arp to solve the address
resolution part.  nbma arp can be thought as an extension of atmarp and
we could have proceed with in in ipoveratm wg.  it was not, however,
done, since some people believed that nhrp (which ramesh and i also
wrote the first drafts of) could be enhanced to get rid of the loop
problems.

now two years have passed and we don't have anything!  perhaps ipoveratm
group should take another serious look at nbma arp as the atmarp
extension and consider nhrp again once rolc has the definite solution
(if such even exists).

-- juha