Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

Joe Abley jabley at isc.org
Tue Sep 13 11:45:31 UTC 2005



On 13-Sep-2005, at 03:28, Crist Clark wrote:

> Igor Gashinsky wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho.
>
> But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb
> network (a.k.a. the stupid network)?

And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic  
engineering already effectively performed at the edge?


Joe




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