[147934] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Soucy)
Wed Dec 28 08:18:45 2011
In-Reply-To: <4EFB11F3.1090007@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:17:55 -0500
From: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
2011/12/28 Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>:
> According to the end to end argument, the only possible solution
> to the problem, with no complete or correct alternatives, is to
> let hosts directly participate in IGP activities.
>
> See the paper by Saltzer et. al.
So your entire argument is based on an academic paper from 1981 and
that host systems should participate in IGP.
We tried that.
It didn't scale well.
The Internet today is very different than the Internet in 1981.
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Ray Soucy
Epic Communications Specialist
Phone: +1 (207) 561-3526
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