|> Yes, but there's a very big difference between you driving your car |> the way |> that you want and the way that hop-by-hop forwarding works. | |What if the driver could (optionally) select from a set of back roads |that is limited to those published by the network provider? If the |driver doesn't want to and/or cannot do this additional navigation |work, he could follow the nudge of the underlying hop-by-hop mechanism. | |In other words, maybe we can build a basic reachability service of |global scope, and layer on top of that a more advanced service that |provides enhanced functionality, but where the costs are localized.
That would be a fine thing, but the user has only two ways to express his desires: one is by injecting routing information, which necessarily can be overridden. The only other way is by doing a setup protocol. Some folks have proposed a hybrid architecture in the past that allowed both, but it (rightfully) went over like a lead balloon. | |> To give the end |> user complete control over the path, we need to revert to a fully |> connection |> oriented Internet. No thanks. ;-) | |Can you clarify? What if the intentions stated by the end user are |only advisory? If they are advisory, then the ISP may ignore them. It was previously asserted that this would be unacceptable. Tony -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
