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

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:26:27AM -0700, Tony Li wrote:
> >>> 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'.

If there is a single path, it's by definition the "best".  (It's also 
the worst, for sure, but we're not looking for that).

Gert Doering
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