Re: [RAM] Re: the separation of ID/RLOC

[Tony Li <tli at cisco.com>]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:09 AM, Christian Vogt wrote:

> If the delay caused by a provider change can be limited to 1 RTT, then
> TCP will run into only a single retransmission timeout, and it will
> efficiently recover in slow-start mode afterwards.  So my preferred
> definition of "quickly" is 1 end-to-end RTT.
>
> Whether or not long update delays are an issue depends, as you say, on
> the change frequency and granularity.  However, any assumptions  
> that we
> make in this regards should be very careful.  Our goal is to give edge
> networks more freedom in traffic engineering and provider selection.
> And it would be great if we could reach this goal without restrictions
> -- such as in terms of change frequency or granularity.


Isn't this issue easily resolved by advertising more than one locator?

Tony

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