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Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation
From: Tony Li <tli () juniper net>
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:16:05 -0800
What I was trying to postulate, unsuccessfully, there is no such thing as an universal, optimal hierarchical addressing scheme.
Sean, It's pretty much obvious that the obvious definition of 'optimality' can only be achieved if the topology is strictly hierarchical. Further, there is probably a 'maximal' addressing scheme for a given topology. But's only useful for the next 10 seconds that that topology continues to exist. ;-) The other point that I think you're trying to make is that the maximal hierarchy must follow the topology, and in some cases, this may actually cause addressing divisions to not follow organizational boundaries. Further, the organizations involved must be the ones to recognize this and follow thru appropriately. An interesting metric might be if the organization's min-cut-set bandwidth is exceeded by its regional access bandwidth. Tony
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- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Tony Li (Nov 16)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Sean M. Doran (Nov 17)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Tony Li (Nov 17)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Tony Li (Nov 16)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Sean M. Doran (Nov 17)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Kent W. England (Nov 20)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Tony Li (Nov 21)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Vadim Antonov (Nov 21)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Tony Li (Nov 21)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Sean Doran (Nov 21)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Vadim Antonov (Nov 21)
- Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation Sean M. Doran (Nov 23)