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Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

  • From: Joe Abley
  • Date: Tue Sep 13 07:50:36 2005 

On 13-Sep-2005, at 03:28, Crist Clark wrote:


Igor Gashinsky wrote:
[snip]


Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho.

But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb
network (a.k.a. the stupid network)?
And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic engineering already effectively performed at the edge?


Joe