Re: always including the context tag

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

On 2007-01-02 14:56, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 28-dec-2006, at 18:57, marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
>
> > > 1. Always including the context tag
>
> > > As I've said many times, it's a very bad idea to unnecessarily 
> > > increase overhead.
>
> > well, i think having an additional header is the clean way to do this, 
> > because there is an additional layer that is being inserted and the 
> > layer needs to perform its signalling and this is achieved using a 
> > extra header.
>
> Clean != best

clean == best, all other things being equal.
> We also have ample precedent for non-clean solutions.  :-)

Yes, NAT for example...

   Brian