Wasn't Noel Chiappa Nimrods "father" ? He explained his philosophy to me in an interview a decade ago as well as why he believed that BGP was not sustainable. yet here we are still chugging along meanwhile back to your operational flows ;-) ============================================================= The COOK Report on Internet Protocol, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA 609 882-2572 (PSTN) 415 651-4147 (Lingo) cook@cookreport.com Subscription info: http://cookreport.com/subscriptions.shtml IMS and an Internet Economic & Business Model at: http://cookreport.com/14.09.shtml ============================================================= On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
now, the proposal put forward lo these many moons ago to avoid any possibility of a routing change was, as I recall, Nimrod, and the Nimrod architecture called for variable length addresses in the network layer protocol and the use of a flow label (as in "IPv6 flow label") as a short-form address in some senses akin to a virtual circuit ID.