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ARIS IP Switching Internet Draft

  • From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 96 16:50:26 JST
  • Cc: tagswitch@cisco.com, ion@nexen.com

> Attached is the IBM IP Switching Internet Draft:
> "Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching" (ARIS)

Seems to be yet another inscalable attempt to switch
best effort traffic.

Just boring.

> We believe that this proposal offers a scalable solution
> to IP Switching,

No.

In the global Internet, where the scalability is the problem,
there is no such thing as egress routers.

In a private network with egress routers, there is NO scalability
problem to worry about.

> 10. TTL Decrement
> 
>    In order to comply with the requirements for IPv4 routers, the IP
>    datagram Time-To-Live (TTL) field must be decremented on each hop it
>    traverses [9].

Wrong.

TTL decrement is a requirement for a packet relay, not for a cell relay.

						Masataka Ohta