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

["William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:
>  |Why should these routing decisions be mutually exclusive? Why must a
>  |protocol require that all packets follow a top-down routing strategy?
>
>  [...] Why now?  What's changed?

Hi Tony,

BGP communities
CDNs (e.g. Akamai)
InterNAP-style optimized BGP

Quite an industry has sprung up in the last half decade founded on the
idea of hyper-optimizing the network path between your content and
your customer. Such systems can address factors that traditional
routing schemes can't, like end-to-end packet loss.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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