[1514] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Alternate Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Mon Oct 21 14:24:38 1991
To: yakov@watson.ibm.com
Cc: steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov, lear@turbo.bio.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 91 13:12:57 EDT."
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 14:22:44 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Yakov,
I agree. But only because we solve a lot more strategic things
with QoS. The current motivation of R+E traffic will hopefully
shrivel up and die.
Marty
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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
