RE: Minutes / Notes

["Christian Huitema" <huitema@windows.microsoft.com>]

> many p2p apps do their own routing because they are forced to do so,
> not because this is a desirable or acceptable burden to impose on
> applications.    also, what works acceptably well in a system to
> transfer widely-replicated files does not necessarily work well in a
> system where host identity is important.

There are pretty few systems were "host identity" is what really
matters; in most cases, you want something like domain or user identity.
For example, "www.google.com" is not exactly 1 single host. 

-- Christian Huitema