Re: [RAM] Re: Ramblings about "locator"

[Peter Sherbin <pesherb at yahoo.com>]

> If we consider forwarding functionality to be the definition of a  
> locator, then we are going to have a very serious issue.

The above should not be a constrain or concern because in the new architecture under
discussion all current principles may not need to apply. E.g. current address vs.
future id / loc split.

Thanks,
Peter


--- Tony Li <tli at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:30 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> > 	You were the person who persuaded me, after some
> > resistance on my part, that since the IEEE MAC address
> > is used in a lookup table (either a bridge table or an
> > IPv6 ND table) to forward the frame/packet, therefore
> > the MAC address must have location semantics and so
> > could not be a pure Identifier.
> 
> 
> If we consider forwarding functionality to be the definition of a  
> locator, then we are going to have a very serious issue.  Consider  
> other forwarding mechanisms that let you take into account source  
> address, port number, protocol number, DSCP, etc. as part of the  
> forwarding decision.  If we follow that logic, the phase of the moon  
> could also be a locator.  Is that what we want?
> 
> I prefer Joel's line of thinking.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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