Autonomic addressing and internetworking on unlimited scale

Abstract

Following host software evolution and experience, it is pointed out that the namespace is the only appropriate application-system boundary even for networking, and that in analogy to host operating systems, the namespace is in fact necessary and sufficient for automatic, efficient management of the Internet addresses and routes. A simple, elegant namespace construction is described which does not need a global address infrastructure, provides addressing, routing and flow setup signalling over an unconstrained number of independent IP address spaces or realms, reducing to IP and DNS within a single realm and degrading softly on the multirealm scale.