Re: Draft of updated WG charter

[Jay Ford <jay-ford@uiowa.edu>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Paul Lustgraaf <grpjl@iastate.edu>
>
>     > Any architecture that requires the 20,000+ end systems on my campus to
>     > make routing decisions is broken.
>
> Why? A large fraction of all the humans on the planet make routing decisions
> every day (and half of them have IQ's of less than 100 :-).

Yeah, but do they make *good* routing decisions?  ;^)

> Every end system
> on your campus includes complex and sophisticated algorithms to do congestion
> avoidance. Why should routing be treated differently?

Maybe it shouldn't.  My concern is that the hosts won't do it well due to
poor administration.

Jay