Subject: [midcom] Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-shore-friendly-midcom-00.txt

From: Melinda Shore <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:46:16 -0400

For those who aren't on the ietf-announce mailing list, I'm
forwarding this along.  It's a draft on an alternative model
for communicating with middleboxes that gets around some of
the topology-related problems we're experiencing in the
working group.

This is NOT for discussion on the midcom mailing list.

Melinda

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>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-shore-friendly-midcom-00.txt
>Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 07:13:10 -0400
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>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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>
>        Title           : Towards a Network-friendlier Midcom
>        Author(s)       : M. Shore
>        Filename        : draft-shore-friendly-midcom-00.txt
>        Pages           : 14
>        Date            : 02-Oct-01
>        
>While IP was designed around the notion that the network would be
>invisible to the applications that run on them, an increasingly
>complex service environment along with the compartmentalization of
>'policy' into administrative domains has led to a proliferation of
>types of middleboxes for policy enforcement, and those middleboxes
>are interfering with applications.  Applications now need to influ-
>ence the behavior of middleboxes, but violating network layering
>principles by establishing explicit communication channels from
>applications to network-layer middleboxes introduces a new set of
>problems related to topology and discovery as well as consequent
>problems that ripple out from those.
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
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