RE: [RRG] Are host-stack modifications allowed or disallowed ?

["Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>]

|From a purely philosophical standpoint, I argue that's backwards. The
|ISP should provide the routing nudge which the user can choose to
|disregard. Think of it like driving a car: the roads tend to funnel me
|towards the Interstate highway and I normally go the direction they
|lead but I can choose back roads any time I feel like it and nobody
|says, "stop."

Yes, but there's a very big difference between you driving your car the way
that you want and the way that hop-by-hop forwarding works.  To give the end
user complete control over the path, we need to revert to a fully connection
oriented Internet.  No thanks.  ;-)

Tony




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