Re: [narten@us.ibm.com: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:42:27AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > It smells remarkably like pathalias to me ;-)
> 
> except that I'm not proposing that border routers do source routing,
> just that they map from PI identifiers to PA locators and prepend a
> header that causes the payload to be routed to the locator.

And that sounds exactly like pathalias and what the Usenet/SMTP smart
routers did, yes?  Hopefully though they wouldn't require as much CPU
power to calculate as pathalias database required --- as I recall Erik
Fair at Apple used a Cray for that purpose, because he didn't like
waiting....  :-)

						- Ted

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