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

[Tony Li]

>>> Have the practical problems "how do I find the combination of source + 
>>> destination IP out of a set of N possible sources and M destination 
>>> addresses that works 'best' for me" (with locally varying metrics for
>>> what is 'better' - latency, throughput, price, firewall policies, 
>>> upstream RPF) been solved by now?
>> 
>> This is an orthogonal problem.  PI doesn't solve it either.
> 
> With PI (on both ends), there is only one combination of source and
> destination IP address.  Which makes this quite easy - try this 
> combination, and if it works, it's the best possible option.  Sounds
> "solved" to me.


No, you only tried one path.  There's no way to say that this is 'best'.

Tony