Re: geo short vs long term? [Re: Geo pros and cons]

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

On onsdag, apr 16, 2003, at 17:09 Europe/Stockholm, Iljitsch van 
Beijnum wrote:

> But to really answer your question: I think it should be doable to 
> find consensus on the fact that layer 4 choices in the past are making 
> our life difficult today, but I'm not sure we can agree on a plan of 
> attack. I suspect that many people will take the position "if TCP 
> wants a stable address, we'll implement magic in the IP layer to make 
> this happen" rather than "let's improve TCP". Well, maybe that could 
> be our consensus. I'd rather see it happen cleanly by changing TCP, 
> but if we can get it to work without too big a mess in IP, I suppose I 
> can get behind that.
>
> If we can indeed find rough consensus on that, maybe we don't even 
> have to throw it back outside multi6.
I think the first step still is to define what the options are. Then we 
can start worry about consensus. But I agree that we need to start at a 
meeting.

- kurtis -