Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 23 nov 2008, at 20:25, Tony Hain wrote: > >> The fundamental problem here is that the voices of those bearing the >> costs >> in the core are being represented, while the voices of those doing >> application development are not being heard. > > Not sure that's entirely true... > > But in any event, compared to the backflips through flaming hoops we > have to do in IPv4, the asking a remote server what our source address > looks like from the outside to make address based referrals work doesn't > seem too onerous. Or do you disagree?
absolutely it's too onerous. why in the world should an application's deployability depend on the existence of a server that lives in global address space -- or for that matter, on a bank of servers that exist to do nothing but forward traffic? isn't that what the network is supposed to do? Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
