Re: [DNA] Confirming today's face-to-face meeting decisions

[Sathya Narayanan <sathya@research.panasonic.com>]

Erik -
 
> While the timeout is the case in the current rrd draft, it isn't a 
> fundamental property of landmark-based schemes.
Just to set the record straight, timeout is not the case in current RRD draft. I agree with you that it is not a fundamental property of 'host-scoped' ;-)scheme. I mentioned timeout in response to a specific question.

> For instance, in a landmark scheme the routers on the link can 
> share the 
> landmarks they have so that any router can respond. If you do 
> this, a RS 
> containing a landmark can be responded by any router, whether on 
> the 
> same link or not. If on the same link the router would respond 
> "yes, 
> this landmark is on this link" and if its it a different link the 
> router 
> would respond "no".
I am not sure I like where you are going with this. You are slowly moving the landmark towards becoming 'link-scoped' identifier.

- Sathya