On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:42:27AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > It smells remarkably like pathalias to me ;-) > > except that I'm not proposing that border routers do source routing, > just that they map from PI identifiers to PA locators and prepend a > header that causes the payload to be routed to the locator. And that sounds exactly like pathalias and what the Usenet/SMTP smart routers did, yes? Hopefully though they wouldn't require as much CPU power to calculate as pathalias database required --- as I recall Erik Fair at Apple used a Cray for that purpose, because he didn't like waiting.... :-) - Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf