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Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-08-27 11:50:27
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:21, Keith Moore wrote:
what has changed is that we're now expecting a layer 3 that was designed
for relatively stable networks of wired hosts to suddenly accomodate
mobile and nomadic hosts and networks, without significant change.

TCP/IP was designed for such networks. What has changed is that we no
longer have provider indepdendent addressing. Which means routing
protocols can no longer do the job.

        MikaL