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the undead urban myth of the LOC/EID split
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:54:17 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: mo () ccr org (Mike O'Dell) Date: October 29, 2008 8:28:25 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: the undead urban myth of the LOC/EID split Dave, an indulgence if you would. there is a persistent urban myth (which gets repeated here with some frequency) which states that splitting "network addresses" into location-dependent and location-independent components is the secret to life, the universe, and everything. i know that myth quite well because once upon a time i subscribed to it and made a serious proposal to do just that with IPv6. But if you want to find out why the myth is wrong and what it takes to have it work right from first principles, you're going to have to read a book that will likely take some work: "Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals" by John Day It contains more than a few deeply profound insights. Among other things, you'll discover why "global addresses" are an abberation, and that "NAT" is an absolutely natural technique to use in structure networks - it's just the introduction of an arbitrary abstraction encapusulation. In fact, the ugliness of "NAT" is directly related to how, uh, "unfortunate" the underlying architecture really is. this is indeed a shameless plug for John's remarkable book. if you really want to know what a clean, deeply elegant network architecture based on solid fundamentals can look like, read his book. cheers, -mo Full and Fair Disclosure: I reviewed the text along the way as a work in progress. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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