RE: WG next steps

["Tony Li" <Tony.Li@procket.com>]

|   That is a very questionable proposition. Today, the transport layer
|   measures round trip times to manage retransmissions, and 
|   maintain window
|   sizes to match sending rates with available network capacity. In a
|   multi-homed environment, you would expect the transport to 
|   assess RTT
|   and capacity for the various available paths and to make intelligent
|   decisions about which packet goes on what path. Clearly, 
|   you want some
|   aggregation, but there is certainly value in providing the transport
|   with handles for directing traffic one way or another, which implies
|   dealing with addresses or locators.


Not necessarily.  If the network layer provided the transport with
an opaque handle for each path, then the transport layer wouldn't
have to touch locators at all.  The network layer would still
need to inform the transport layer of path changes, but again, this
could be done via the handle.

Tony