RE: WG next steps

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Tony Li wrote:

> |   The end to end principle implies that each host should have
> |   all the information and should receive IGP.

> The end to end principle is that the network should not replicate
> a function that has to be performed by the hosts.

> How does this imply that the host should participate in routing?

Isn't that obvious? If we can make the end-hosts do routing, the e2e
principle dictates routers should no longer do this.

You could pervert this logic into the position that IP should do away
with hop-by-hop routing and do source routing instead.

:-)

Iljitsch