Re: [RRG] Why delaying initial packets matters

[Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com>]

On 2008-2-13, at 20:15, ext Dino Farinacci wrote:
> Lars, it's not an either or thing, and just because there are more  
> hosts than routers or whatever metric you want to use, there *is*  
> going to be pain. We can share it or we can put it all in one place.

I agree it's not an either-or decision. And it is actually possible to  
combing routing scalability changes with other changes at the  
internetworking layer, so that application and transport performance  
*increases* rather than decreases.

For example, an RRG proposal that attempted to offset lookup-induced  
delays/inefficiencies through enabling QuickStart/XCP/RCP or maybe  
some other to-be-defined explicit feedback scheme would be *extremely*  
interesting, IMO.

(Yes, making use of the explicit feedback will require changes to the  
hosts, too. But at least there'd be a strong incentive for the hosts  
to change.)

Lars

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