@article{Luo2011Decoupling,
author = {Hongbin Luo and Hongke Zhang and Moshe Zukerman},
title = {Decoupling the design of identifier-to-locator
mapping services from identifier},
journal = {Computer Networks},
volume = {55},
number = {4},
pages ={959-974},
month = {Mar.},
year ={2011},
abstract = {In order to address the scalability issue of the
Internet routing architecture, there is a growing consensus that it is necessary
to separate the locator role and the identifier role of IP addresses. When
identifiers are separated from locators, a critical challenge is how to design
an identifier-to-locator mapping service to map identifiers onto locators. While
many mapping services have been proposed in the literature, they are designed
based on either the structure or the hash of identifiers. That is, they are all
designed based on identifiers. A result of such design choices is that users of
identifiers do not have the freedom to choose where to store their
identifier-to-locator mappings. In this paper, we argue that an
identifier-to-locator mapping service should offer users of identifiers the
freedom to choose where to store their mappings. For this purpose, we propose to
decouple the design of identifier-to-locator mapping services from identifiers.
In particular, our research results show that, by setting a set of
identifier-to-locator mapping service providers (MSPs) and letting the users of
identifiers choose their preferred/trusted MSPs, we can design an elegant
mapping service to map identifiers onto locators.}
}