G03-BA: No
Rationale
In the selected BATMAN_IV mesh, originator advertisements establish individual mesh-destination reachability and translation-table updates distribute client-MAC mappings. Native unicast uses these exact destination entries: a missing translation or usable originator route does not trigger an aggregate/default route or a distributed identity lookup that replaces the domain catalog.
Assessment method
Primary specification and pinned code review; no runtime experiment
Source context
Selected discovery and pathfinder mechanisms
Outstanding qualification
Credit is assessed for arbitrary native unicast destinations across the selected mesh, not only a known subset or broadcast traffic. Attached Ethernet clients need not run this catalog, but the routing nodes distribute destination-specific state. Translation-table repair synchronizes that state rather than replacing it with catalog-free discovery. No identical-table, instantaneous-convergence or all-version claim is made.
Public sources
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/v6.12/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/v6.12/net/batman-adv/translation-table.c
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/v6.12/net/batman-adv/send.c
Editorial evidence references
The following identifiers refer to research records not included in this public package; they are not public links.
- round498.html
- round498-sources.json