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- Hierarchical Routing Designators.
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- A system that supports hierarchical routing will identifies
- itself with the "H" feature letter in it's SID.
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- A hierarchical routing designator is composed of any number
- of fields delimited by dot ("."). The fields are in the order
- more to less specific location, from left to right (see examples below).
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- A hierarchical routing designator may contain up to 31 charactors
- beyond the initial (six character maximum) traditional designator,
- including the dot delimiters. There is no explicit limit on the number
- of fields. Each field may contain at most six characters, not including
- the dot delimiters.
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- Examples:
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- w0rli.norcal.usa
- ja2xxx.32.j2net.jpn.asia
- amsat
- md.usa
- 95060.ca.usa
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- How does compatiblity with existing systems work?
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- When a system that handles hierarchical designators receives
- a message from a system that does not handle them there is no
- problem. Things work as they always have.
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- When a system that handles hierarchical designators sends
- a message to a system that does not handle them, it sends
- the leftmost field of the designator as the "@ BBS" field.
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- How does forwarding work?
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- For each message, each field of the hierarchical designator becomes
- a candidate key for routing the message. They leftmost field of
- the hierarchical designator that matches an entry in any routing
- list is used to forward the message. For example:
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- ja2xxx.32.j2net.jpn.asia
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- If ja2xxx is in my route list, I route to him directly.
- If 32 is in my route list, I use that route.
- If j2net is in my route list, then I use it.
- If jpn is in my route list, then I use it.
- If asia is in my route list, then I use it.
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- Stations outside asia would all have asia in their route list,
- routing their traffic to some nearby HF gateway which can route
- to asia. The HF station that routes to Japan would route using
- the jpn part of the designator. Inside Japan, the gateway station
- would route toward the JA2 districts using the j2net part of
- the designator. Inside JA2, stations would route toward the
- correct region using the 32 part of the designator. Inside
- the 32 region, stations would route directly to ja2xxx using
- the first part of the designator.
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- One useful way to think about hierarchical designators is to
- think of the "." as meaning "is within" . Thus the designator
- w0rli.norcal.usa means "w0rli, who is in norcal, which is in usa".
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