Re: [rrg] belated msg: further description of the recommendation process

Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> Mon, 14 December 2009 16:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rrg] belated msg: further description of the recommendation process
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Michael Menth wrote:
> Hi Lixia,
> 
> do mapping systems also belong to the discussed proposals? I assume they 
> do not although a lot of the complexity taken out of the routing is put 
> into them? If I am wrong, I would like to add FIRMS to the list of 
> discussed proposals:
> http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~menth/Publications/papers/Menth09-FIRMS.pdf 


Michael,

Mapping systems are obviously a component of a solution but are not by 
themselves a solution.  To be considered seriously, they should be used 
in conjunction with some network layer solution.

Regards,
Tony