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Re: [RRG] Six/One: A (Different) Solution for Routing and Addressing in IPv6




Christian,

On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Christian Vogt wrote:

In Six/One, the edge network is still in charge of selecting a provider: Hosts can only /suggest/ a provider; it's the edge network which finally /decides/ whether or not to grant that suggestion. This means that, in Six/One, there is no need to define a provider selection policy and distribute it to hosts.


and previously:

On Jul 16, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Christian Vogt wrote:
(2)  Host influence on/awareness of provider selection

The ultimate goal of all routing and addressing solutions is to provide
better connectivity to users.  I hence don't consider it a benefit if
those same solutions eliminate a user's ability to select a connection.

Two reasons:

- Applications, in particular real-time media applications, have an
advantage if they can select a connection because that allows them to
choose a path that is best for a particular traffic type.

- Transport protocols, too, would benefit from the ability to select a
connection.  They would also benefit from an awareness of connectivity
changes as they could so better adapt to such changes.


Seems to me you need to decide: either the user/host gets to decide, or the middle box does. You can't have it both ways. Which is it?

Tony

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