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The following Internet Draft should be of interest to this mailing
list, and perhaps this is the appropriate venue for a discussion of
it.

Bob Braden

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


	Title		: Middle boxes: taxonomy and issues
	Author(s)	: B. Carpenter
	Filename	: draft-carpenter-midtax-00.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 30-Jan-01
	
This document is intended as input to IETF discussion about 'middle
boxes' - defined as any intermediary box performing functions apart
from normal, standard functions of an IP router on the data path
between a source host and destination host.

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