[ih] More terminology (Was: multi-protocol routers, bridges)

[Brian E Carpenter]

Hi Noel,

I'd say that this distinction is usually, but not always, made clear in the
IETF today, but the RIB and FIB are very distinct concepts.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-king-irtf-challenges-in-routing/
may be of interest re some current thinking.

Regards
    Brian

On 28-Nov-21 12:32, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
>      > From: Bill Nowicki
> 
>      > The PUP routing was running on what became the Sun hardware
> 
> This brings up another terminological point. To the best of my memory, the
> below wasn't just _my_ style, but was widely used by people discussing the
> internetworking layer in the IETF, after the Internet started to really take
> off. Perhaps some others could weigh in, to confirm/comment? (And for all I
> know, it's still in use; I'm no longer active in networking, so I don't know.)
> 
> We distinguished between two very different activities which 'routers'
> performed; the handling of user traffic, which we called 'forwarding', and the
> computation of routing data/tables (by routing protocols/algorithms), which
> was often (but not always, IIRC) called 'routing'. (Slightly confusing, I
> know! :-)
> 
> 
> Anyway, by "routing" above, I assume you mean what I have denominated as
> 'forwarding' above. Of course, they also did PUP 'routing' (as above); and
> some/all of them eventually did IP 'forwarding' too (to provide the IP traffic
> for which Stanford needed an IP ARPANET router).
> 
>      Noel
>