On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:14 PM, Tony Li wrote:
|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 waythat you want and the way that hop-by-hop forwarding works.
What if the driver could (optionally) select from a set of back roads that is limited to those published by the network provider? If the driver doesn't want to and/or cannot do this additional navigation work, he could follow the nudge of the underlying hop-by-hop mechanism.
In other words, maybe we can build a basic reachability service of global scope, and layer on top of that a more advanced service that provides enhanced functionality, but where the costs are localized.
To give the enduser complete control over the path, we need to revert to a fully connectionoriented Internet. No thanks. ;-)
Can you clarify? What if the intentions stated by the end user are only advisory?
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