R02 ACS MPhil - Network Architectures First Essay (due Oct 30) One key challenge for the Internet is to address mobility as a first class component of IP addressing and routing. In this essay, I'd like to see a discussion of the various proposals for locator-identifier split (whether in IPv4 or IPv6 or otherwise), and their impact on routing. Background Reading ILNP https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-rrg-ilnp-arch/ IPNL http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/R02/papers/ipnl.pdf Nimrod http://au.net/ietf/idref/draft-chiappa-ipng-nimrod-arch/ 8+8 https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-odell-8+8-00.txt LISP https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lisp/ The last one is an excercise in findng relevant material in a standards working group!