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Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]


From: Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:45:31 +0300



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


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