[1513] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Alternate Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yakov@watson.ibm.com)
Mon Oct 21 13:58:18 1991
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 13:12:57 EDT
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
To: steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov, lear@turbo.bio.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Ref: Your note of Mon, 21 Oct 91 12:17:39 EDT
Steve,
While source-specific routing may "solve a host of folks problems",
I would suggest to look at the overhead associated with such
a solution, and other ways of solving the problem.
Solution with source-specific routing is likely to be
more expensive (in terms of required resources), than
solution that would employ some form of QoSs (these QoS
would allow to mark certain packets). Given that both solutions
are likely to solve exactly the same problem, I think the prefered
way would be to pick up the least expensive one.
Yakov Rekhter
