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Re: Middleboxes [Was: Flow label versus Extension header - protocol itself]



On 8-mei-2005, at 18:35, Christian Huitema wrote:

Besides, the assumption that a middlebox sees all of the host
communications is often wrong today, and will likely become wrong even
more often in the future.

That's true, and in most cases a host implementation would be better than a middlebox implementation. Still, we shouldn't ignore the input from the enterprise guys who really don't want to do traffic engineering on a host-by-host basis, to name just one downside of every host doing multihoming autonomously.


So unless having potential middlebox implementation compatibility is a great hardship we shouldn't break it.