Re: requirements sub-group draft

From: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (shivkuma@ecse.rpi.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 13:19:53 EST


Ok - so it is right to infer that data-plane changes are not ruled out by
this requirements spec ?

-Shiv

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 06:59:33PM -0500, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman wrote:
> > The requirements doc does not say anything about whether changing in the
> > routing system for the future should or should not entail changes in the
> > forwarding paradigm.
> >
> > History has shown that CIDR, subnet masking and MPLS-style
> > significant control plane changes have involved changes in the data plane,
> > and in some cases mandatory...
>
> Shiv: Those aren't part of Path Discovery, but they are still part of
> Path Selection, i.e. they're still in "routing".
>



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