[84423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Sep 13 07:49:17 2005
In-Reply-To: <43261D15.8000209@globalstar.com>
Cc: Igor Gashinsky <igor@gashinsky.net>, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:45:31 +0300
To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 13-Sep-2005, at 03:28, Crist Clark wrote:
> Igor Gashinsky wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho.
>
> But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb
> network (a.k.a. the stupid network)?
And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic
engineering already effectively performed at the edge?
Joe
