On Apr 22, 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
(2) There is no way that these decisions can be made solely at the
transport or application layer, because source (and to a lesser degree
destination) address selection is tightly tied to the first-hop
forwarding decision. [...]
Margaret -
FWIW: The fact that address selection determines the first hop does not
mean that address selection could not be performed at the application
layer. In fact, applications can select their addresses. This just
some-
times does not work well, which is what we should analyze and document.
- Christian
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