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

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

|    Ignoring the DNS for a moment... I think the original GSE 
|    called for 
|    the border routers to rewrite packets, but this could 
|    nearly as easily 
|    happen in a middlebox, or even in the host itself.


While those locations are not impossible, the most natural place
for it is in the border router or the provider edge router.

    
|    I guess it would be possible to do this without changing 
|    the network 
|    layer but I wouldn't bet on it.


I don't believe that it's a requirement to change the syntax
of the network layer header.  The semantics, of course, must 
change.  IMHO, this is a good thing.

Tony