On 10/5/2012 9:11 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
On 10/05/2012 05:25 PM, Barry Shein wrote:
5. Bits is bits.
I don't know how to say that more clearly.
An ipv6 address is a string of 128 bits with some segmentation implications (net part, host part.)
A host name is a string of bits of varying length. But it's still just ones and zeros, an integer, however you want to read it.
Wasn't David Cheriton proposing something like this?
http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/triad/
Mike
Not exactly. TRIAD is a proposal for distributing content names using a new routing protocol (in addition to existing routing protocols instead of as a replacement for existing routing protocols) such that one could "Route a content request, based on its name, toward the closest server for that name."(1) The actual forwarding of packets/requests would continue to use IP. TRIAD addresses issues with namespace size using Explicit Aggregation into collections. (2) -DMM 1. http://www-dsg.stanford.edu/slides/triad-content-netseminar/img15.htm 2. http://gregorio.stanford.edu/papers/contentrouting/node9.html#SECTION0004100...