Apologies for being being on email, and jumping into the middle
of this thread. This is in response to:
Joel said:
>>requiring that we restrict our
>>work to only the current hop-by-hop view restricts what is possible
>>significantly.
Agreeing with him...
One other example of something that seems to be possible with
route setup (e.g., something like
MPLS), and doesn't seem to be possible with hop-by-hop
forwarding is sabotage-proof routing. With potentially
malicious routers, and a truly distributed forwarding decision,
it's much harder to wind up with a working path than if you
can choose a path, set it up, and forward data over it.
Radia
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