Routing Architecture Building Blocks: an Informational Taxonomy
Gett Communications
This document identifies and categorizes the components of routing, switching, forwarding, and addressing that may be used in routing architectures. The intention is to support the development of a new routing architecture for the Internet. The addressing architecture, address allocation and assignment principles, and possibilities for renumbering are important aspects when designing a routing architecture. How routing information is learned and methods for distributing it are other issues discussed in this document. A number of methods for data traffic forwarding are also described and evaluated