[rrg] Fundamental objections to a host-based scalable routing solution

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 2008-11-25 10:46, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>
> 
>     > the RRG doesn't get to decide about this. A host based solution will or
>     > won't deploy, and will or won't succeed, ... regardless of both the
>     > routing community and the ISPs. So I don't think we need to discuss it
>     > here at all.
> 
> What about solutions which are (as I mentioned in the original note)
> initially deployed in first-hop routers (for reasons of pragmatism) but which
> are intended to, over time, migrate into the hosts (to give the hosts direct
> access to the new underlying semantics)?

Good point, although of course first-hop routers are rarely under ISP control
for medium/large companies, where I suspect our "market" mainly lies.

   Brian