|Why should these routing decisions be mutually exclusive? Why must a |protocol require that all packets follow a top-down routing strategy?
First, it's not a protocol issue, it's an architecture issue. As I mentioned previously, hybrid forwarding architectures that support both hop-by-hop and specialized forwarding schemes have been proposed and have been widely ignored before. Please see RFC 1668 as an example. Please note the authors. ;-) It's definitely not out of the question, but to assert that folks really want this now implies that there's been some change in conditions that would make this feasible from a deployment and business model perspective. I certainly haven't seen any indication of that. Why now? What's changed? 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
