BigTen addressing drafts

[Tony Li <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

As part of the IPng Directorate meeting May 19 & 20 in Chicago, the
Directorate and its guests had a general discussion of alternative
designs.  Discussion focused around a hypothetical proposal which, for
the lack of a better name, we call BigTen, after the conference center
where the meeting was held.  

One of the more interesting features about BigTen is that it does use
variable length addresses in a way unlike any of the current
proposals.  Subsequent to the meeting, Yakov and I were asked by the
area directors to look into an addressing architecture and plan for
such addresses.

These documents are now available as Internet drafts:

		draft-rekhter-bigten-addr-arch-00.txt
		  draft-li-bigten-addr-format-00.txt

Please note that these are CRUDE first drafts subject to major
revisions.  For example, it's not clear if the length bits should have
routing significance.

Please direct any comments to Yakov and myself.  Public discussion
should occur on the big-internet mailing list.

Thanks,
Tony