Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

On Nov 5, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 15:32:30 -0700
> "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com> wrote:
>
> > It's really quiet in here.  So, for some Friday fun let me whap at the hornets nest and see what happens...  >;-)
> >
> >
> > http://www.ionary.com/PSOC-MovingBeyondTCP.pdf
>
> Who ever wrote that doesn't know what they're talking about. LISP is
> not the IETF's proposed solution (the IETF don't have one, the IRTF do),

Um, I would not agree. The IRTF RRG considered and is documenting a lot of things, but did not
come to any consensus as to which one should be a "proposed solution."

Regards
Marshall


> and streaming media was seen to be one of the early applications of the
> Internet - these types of applications is why TCP was split out of
> IP, why UDP was invented, and why UDP has has a significantly
> different protocol number to TCP.
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > "NAT is your friend"
> >
> > "IP doesn’t handle addressing or multi-homing well at all"
> >
> > "The IETF’s proposed solution to the multihoming problem is 
> > called LISP, for Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol. This
> > is already running into scaling problems, and even when it works,
> > it has a failover time on the order of thirty seconds."
> >
> > "TCP and IP were split the wrong way"
> >
> > "IP lacks an addressing architecture"
> >
> > "Packet switching was designed to complement, not replace, the telephone 
> > network. IP was not optimized to support streaming media, such as voice, 
> > audio broadcasting, and video; it was designed to not be the telephone 
> > network."
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > And so, "...the first principle of our proposed new network architecture: Layers are recursive."
> >
> > I can hear the angry hornets buzzing already.  :-)
> >
> > scott