RE: network controls are necessary

["Joel M. Halpern" <joel@stevecrocker.com>]

As far as I know,
1) We do not have paths that provide these properties
2) If we had such paths, the likelihood is that the host would not have 
enough information to determine which locator would give the desired 
properties.

Yes, there is (and has been for many years) ongoing discussion of QoS.  We 
still have not found a sensible and useful way to provide differentiation 
in that dimension.

One of the reasons I want to keep hosts out of the routing space is that if 
we ever do find routing solutions that we want to use for new capabilities 
(QoS or otherwise) I would not want to have to upgrade the hosts as well as 
the routers to deliver such capabilities.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 07:52 PM 12/7/2002 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Some applications need to see more than just the host name. If we are
> going to build something where a host can have several addresses tied to
> several paths with different properties (fast/slow, secure/insecure,
> free/cheap/expensive), applications will want to make selecting
> addresses their business.