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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of St Andrews
Evolving the Internet Architecture Through Naming
<04>ILNP is the most radical architectural change to the Internet architecture since its original deployment. It replaces the most significant data-type, the IP address, with two new data-types, the Locator and Identifier, offering cleaner naming semantics and significantly improves routing state scalability. The changes are being deployed globally today. ILNP can be implemented as a super-set of either IPv4 or IPv6. We have shown multihoming that scales significantly better than IP. After over two years of public scrutiny, review and debate within the IRTF Routing Research Group, it was recommended that ILNP be progressed within the IETF for global standardisation.