[e2e] Open the floodgate

Bob Braden braden at ISI.EDU
Fri Apr 23 09:45:11 PDT 2004


  *> 
  *> so the one thing you could "add" in the network is somethign that we
  *> discussed on this list before (i think it was JMS who put it that the
  *> real purist end2end thing would be to take routing decisions out of the
  *> net and put them in the end systems too along with error recovery) -
  *> 

If putting routing entirely in end systems were a consequence of strict
application of the E2E arguments, then I would say that the E2E
arguments must be wrong or at least incomplete.  But I don't believe
that is a correct deduction.  Datagram routing cannot be done
effectively by end systems alone (you encounter problems of robustness
and scalability), so it is not really a candidate for movement up the
stack and towards the edges.

Bob Braden


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