On 2008-2-13, at 11:57, ext Stig Venaas wrote:
The main thing IMO is to have scalable routing, and some in-optimal application behaviour or host/stack/application changes may be a small price to pay.
Makes complete sense from a routing perspective, because someone else is feeling the pain and the routers are seeing the gain.
But there are maybe a few million routers in the world, and maybe even fewer for which scalability is a serious issue, compared to a few billion hosts. Deploying something new at the network layer that might require changes to host stacks or applications to maintain performance at current levels would be a non-starter.
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