[e2e] e2e principle..where??....

David P. Reed dpreed at reed.com
Mon Jun 4 04:21:52 PDT 2001


At 09:49 PM 6/3/01 +0100, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, David P. Reed wrote:
>
> > But the idea that something that is done in a
> > distributed fashion is not against the end-to-end argument, if the
> > distribution does not place the function into the network layer itself.
>
>Is the above an argument against multicast?



Not against multicast per se.  Super optimized multicast, maybe. (reliable, 
very targeted, or whatever measure of perfection you might mention).


- David
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