Keith Moore wrote: > > ... the host or app doesn't need to be > > passing around topology information. > > you're simply wrong about that, at least in the current architecture. > > > If any process chooses to pass around values > > that are explicitly expected to be directly used > > as topology locators, that process needs to > > understand the topology it is describing. > > that "process" is called IP routing, and expecting routers to > understand IP addresses and their relationship to topology is > not a new idea. There is nothing more to say ... Tony