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Sam Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not foolish enough to argue with a million lemmings. One need only > convince the one in front to change direction. You'll be amazed at the incompetence of lemmings in front :( > That a more scalable solution has not yet been developed is not evidence > that one does not exist. Of course, not. But this is someting in research domain - if and when a magic solution is found, then it'll make sense to discuss it. Doing engineering in hope of some future magic is, well, unwise. And there _are_ problems which cannot be solved. > Classful routing and address assignement wasn't > scalable, either, but we have (hopefully) come out of that era with some > cleverness and reliance on good design. ...and on '67 vintage theoretical work by Kleinrock and Klein who showed that routing can be done in scalable manner. Aggregation is nothing new. >> Nah. It is a clear and present case of not thinking hard enough. > Indeed, and you're willing to dismiss multicast without second thought? No, i'm willing to dismiss it after years of playing with it and thinking about ways to fix it. > As time passes, I can assure you that the line between the two will blur, > whether because of multicast, caching, or greed is yet to be seen. Greed wins. > * I am a multicast newbie, and largely illiterate in current implementation, > so don't laugh at my suggestions publicly, please. :-) Uncommon honesty :) --vadim
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