The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Arun;

> > combinations to fix the problems. We're nearing the point where
> > announcing entirely new proposals is counter-productive.
> 
> I think not. The proposal has several new ideas that had not been
> addressed before. I believe we are at a point were new ideas would
> be useful. Believe me, I am as keen as anybody else to see these
> efforts transpire into an IP switching standard.
> Regards,

Any proposal which needs N^2 VCs (N: # of routers) is absurd at the
Internet backbone where the high performace and the scalability
is needed most.

Note that, at the Internet backbone, it is likely that all the
routers have some packet to all the other routers.

							Masataka Ohta