Christian Huitema wrote:
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.
Right. See draft-irtf-nsrg-report-09.txt Eliot