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Re: why am i in this handbasket? (was Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?)


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:16:17 -0700

The requirement from the E2E principle is that routers should be
dumb and hosts should be clever or the entire system do not.
scale reliably.

And yet in the PTT world, it was the other way around. Clever switching
and dumb telephone boxes.

how did that work out for the ptts?  :)


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