| Description | Document details from CiteSeerX (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles): 1 Summary The Internet is approaching a situation in which the current IP address space is no longer adequate for global addressing and routing. This is causing problems including: (i) Internet backbones and regionals are suffering from the need to maintain large amounts of routing information which is growing rapidly in size (approximately doubling each year); (ii) The Internet is running out of IP network numbers to assign. There is an urgent need to develop and deploy an approach to addressing and routing which solves these problems and allows scaling to several orders of magnitude larger than the existing Internet. However, it is necessary for any change to be deployed in an incremental manner, allowing graceful transition from the current Internet without disruption of service. [1] This paper describes a simple proposal which provides a long-term solution to Internet addressing, routing, and scaling. This involves a gradual migration from the current Internet Suite (which is based on Internet applications, running over TCP or UDP, running over IP) to an updated suite (based on the same Internet applications, running over TCP or UDP, running over CLNP [2]). This approach is known as "TUBA " (TCP & UDP with Bigger Addresses). |
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