RE: Query re request Routing

[Eric Dean <eric@crystalballinc.com>]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 DonE@activate.net wrote:
> > The question to answer then is: should distribution and/or accounting
> > peering necessitate a basic level of request routing peering 
> > (namely the
> > ability to handover authority to route certain requests for 
> > given content
> > units)?
> 
> Yes, as the RR you are talking about doesn't require the use of a
> protocol.  

How can it not require a protocol? How would one know which clients are
more proximate to a peered network if they are not advertised.
 
> That is, the handover of the request routing could be set up
> manually.

I'd be interested to understand how this can be handled offline.
Theoretically, the Internet culd be statically routed but is highly
discouraged.