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Re: Identifier/locator recap




I concur with Erik Nordmark's analysis of things.


On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 02:45 America/Montreal, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Doing it in middleboxes is more complex,...
Middleboxes break the end-to-end principle and are generally not
desirable architecturally.

Since we have at least one architectural approach (i.e. identifier/locator
separation) that does not need/use any middleboxes, please let us all agree
that middlebox approaches are not desirable here -- and not discuss them
at any further length in this WG.

IMHO,

Ran
rja@extremenetworks.com