I-D Action:draft-azinger-scalable-addressing-00.txt

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:26:32PM +0000, Sascha Luck wrote:

> If there is a problem at all, it is a technical one. (I'm not convinced  
> there is, 329k routes today and the internet is still not dead.)

Assume cut-through photonic routing, and suddenly memory, gates
and time (vacuum or glass is your FIFO) become very precious. 
Local-knowledge geographic routing will be the only thing that will scale.

> Spend a fraction of the resources used trying to protect Big Telco's  
> investments on R&D for a new DFZ routing protocol and this could be 
> solved long before any hard limits are reached.

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