On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM, John Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott Brim <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As I understand it, the ultimate complaint is that the encapsulation >> allows traffic to be routed to a part of the Internet that might never >> have seen such traffic before, by using UDP to get past blocking >> points (NATs, for example). > > This actually isn't a separate issue. Indeed, encapsulation can cause > that; but plenty of other stuff causes the same thing.
A separate issue from what? Can cause what same thing? Are you saying the essential issue is to avoid causing congestion in a part of the network that has never seen it before, or that that is a subset of some larger issue, or ... ? >> I suspect the concern is that such areas might not be able to handle >> even dropping a traffic load that is normal in other parts of the >> Internet. > > I don't understand that statment. Let's try a Socratic approach: Why do you think it's a problem to increase traffic in a part of the Internet, by injecting what is considered ordinary traffic in other parts? swb
