Excerpts from Lars Eggert on Thu, Feb 14, 2008 11:20:55AM +0200: > On 2008-2-13, at 20:15, ext Dino Farinacci wrote: >> Lars, it's not an either or thing, and just because there are more hosts >> than routers or whatever metric you want to use, there *is* going to be >> pain. We can share it or we can put it all in one place. > > I agree it's not an either-or decision. And it is actually possible to > combing routing scalability changes with other changes at the > internetworking layer, so that application and transport performance > *increases* rather than decreases. > > For example, an RRG proposal that attempted to offset lookup-induced > delays/inefficiencies through enabling QuickStart/XCP/RCP or maybe some > other to-be-defined explicit feedback scheme would be *extremely* > interesting, IMO. > > (Yes, making use of the explicit feedback will require changes to the > hosts, too. But at least there'd be a strong incentive for the hosts to > change.)
Have we seen any explicit example problems wrt transport performance yet? -- 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
