
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>Hi Tanusree<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">If interest /A/B/1 can be forwarded according to the FIB entry /A</p></div></blockquote>Yes.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">then can /A/B/1 be forwarded with FIB entry /A/B/1/d with certain probability of getting the corresponding data?</p>

</div></blockquote></div>Such forwarding have a high probability of retrieving a Data that can satisfy the Interest, because every Data under /A/B/1/d can satisfy the Interest /A/B/1 unless rejected by a selector. However, this significantly increases the complexity of the FIB lookup algorithm and thus is not advisable.<div class="">Consumers are expected to send Interests that are sufficiently expressive. Interest names should not be shorter than the FIB entry name.</div><div class="">See also #<a href="https://redmine.named-data.net/issues/3781" class="">3781</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours, Junxiao</div></body></html>