On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:29:22 -0600 John Kristoff <jtk@depaul.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:46:10PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > No, it's more than that. SLs impose burdens on hosts and apps. > > SLs break the separation of function between apps and the network > > that is inherent in the end-to-end principle. > > Is it safe to assume that the arguments (on either side) would also > apply to such things as multicast addressing and SCTP path management? I don't think these arguments apply to multicast at all because apps use multicast very differently than unicast, and the considerations about address portability are different. I suspect it does apply to SCTP path management, but I don't know enough about SCTP to be confident of that.