On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > |Why should these routing decisions be mutually exclusive? Why must a > |protocol require that all packets follow a top-down routing strategy? > > [...] Why now? What's changed?
Hi Tony, BGP communities CDNs (e.g. Akamai) InterNAP-style optimized BGP Quite an industry has sprung up in the last half decade founded on the idea of hyper-optimizing the network path between your content and your customer. Such systems can address factors that traditional routing schemes can't, like end-to-end packet loss. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3005 Crane Dr. Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 -- 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
