RE: Quality Assurance Review of "Destination/Source Routing" - draft-lamparter-rtgwg-dst-src-routing-01

[Antoni Przygienda <[e-mail]>]

> >" This means in particular that a router using the source address as
> >   extra qualifier MUST NOT route packets based on a source/destination
> >   route to a system that doesn't support source/destination routes (and
> >   hence doesn't understand the route)."
> >
> >is sufficient but more than necessary and I would correct this. The
> >full condition is
> >
> >" a router using the source address as
> >   extra qualifier (SD-capable) CAN route packets based on a
> >source/destination
> >   route to a system B that doesn't support source/destination routes
> >   IIF it can ensure that B's shortest path to destination does not
> >include an SD-router again
> >  (i.e. the packet MUST NOT re-enter the domain of SD-capable routers)"
> 
> Right, with the obvious case being where the adjacent non-SD-capable router
> does does an Elvis imitation - “Return to Sender”.

 [Tony saiz:]  Which leads to "heartbreak hotel" ... 

> >" Hop-by-hop routing with node-dependent topology information", V
> >Fayet, Denis A Khotimsky, T. Przygienda, 1999/3/21, Conference INFOCOM'99.
> 
> An oldie but a goodie ;^)

[Tony saiz:] You want an oldie ?

Bacon, Francis (1605). "The Advancement of Learning" 6. London. pp. Chapter 1.

That's actually first mention in Western thought of what we call simply "binary system" ;-) 

Now back from shaping electrons into thought transmission (email) to shaping electrons into thought templates (code) ;-) 

-- tony