[e2e] Open the floodgate
Bob Braden
braden at ISI.EDU
Fri Apr 23 09:45:11 PDT 2004
*>
*> so the one thing you could "add" in the network is somethign that we
*> discussed on this list before (i think it was JMS who put it that the
*> real purist end2end thing would be to take routing decisions out of the
*> net and put them in the end systems too along with error recovery) -
*>
If putting routing entirely in end systems were a consequence of strict
application of the E2E arguments, then I would say that the E2E
arguments must be wrong or at least incomplete. But I don't believe
that is a correct deduction. Datagram routing cannot be done
effectively by end systems alone (you encounter problems of robustness
and scalability), so it is not really a candidate for movement up the
stack and towards the edges.
Bob Braden
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