RE: network controls are necessary

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

|   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.


I'd second that.  Even assuming that the host has policy control 
(which I'm not in favor of), the management of locators would belong
in the stack, NOT in the application code.  I would tend to 
extend the API to have a "Hey, this connection isn't working" entry 
so that applications can signal the stack.

Tony