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RE: network controls are necessary

If I thought having the network make the selections would require change in application logic, I would not be suggesting such a solution.
I would prefer a solution that is completely invisible to the application (such as Tony Li's suggesting that the application is handed a 32 bit identifier when it currently expects an IP address).
Failing that, I would prefer to minimize the application coupling.
Having application level address selection increases the application impact.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 09:52 AM 12/6/2002 -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
>
> I strongly prefer the notion that other entities in the
> system would make
> the intelligent choice about the source address to use, and
> could change
> that choice as necessary.

Even though accomplishing that will require changing all the application
software globally???

Tony