On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
The problem is that we (as a profession) don't know
how to do that. We have to make routing scale, and
that demands aggregation, which in turn demands
structured addresses.
The telephone company figured out how to avoid problems decades ago. Why
the computer industry has to rediscover things the hard way mystifies me.
Oh god, not this argument again.
This is the circuit vs connectionless debate. I am sure if you do a
search on Kleinrock and Mills in open literature, you will find all sorts
of reasonings behind why this divide exists.
To grossly oversimplify things, the phone systems do a relatively slow
setup and once it is set up, let it stay till it is done and then tear it
down. There isn't a phone company that does setups and teardowns (if I
may stretch the term) at a rate that can match the connections initiated
and torn down involving tcp/ip for http alone that pass through a core
router in any promising local ISP.
See ATM to the desktop.
/vijay