[e2e] traffic engineering considered harmful

[DJamel H. Sadok]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Jon Crowcroft wrote:

>
> In message <Pine.GSO.4.32.0106140924110.4833-100000 at caruaru>, "DJamel H. Sadok"
>  typed:
>
>  >>Hierarchical  schemes are, at least intuitively" scalable but It would be
>  >>intersting to know by how much and if there is "really" need for this in
>  >>the Internet as the number of ASs must be not that high.
>
>  >>By  the way how  is communication handled in the M3I project?
>
> badly:-)
>
> we use multicast...

why? is it multicast at the application level?
It seems that people are giving up on other levels of multicast!

Djamel