DLB comments

["tim clifford" <tjc@lacunanet.net>]

well, I agree with your statement here, but I believe there are significant
exceptions to this rule.  As I understand the Digital Island/C&W and Akamai
service offerings, and technologies like the cisco content director and
nortel alteon, they specifically place application level ( or at least above
IP) processing in the forwarding path.

it seems that various activities are pushing this sort of functionality to
the mobile edge.

tim


>
> DLB:	Intelligent entities are needed in the network to control access and
> 	provide QoS capabilities, and route packets but there should be no
> application elements
> 	within the network as part of the forwarding path.
>