RE: draft-bonica-tunneltrace-02

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

At 12:25 PM 3/5/2002 -0800, Shahram Davari wrote:
>Ron,
>
> > We should not be surprised that
> > the enhanced
> > route tracing application resembles the current "traceroute"
> > in that a) it
> > is based upon probes and responses, b) UDP carries its PDUs,
> > and c) it is
> > stateless.
> >
>
>I am not surprised at all. What you are suggesting is
>your desire to resemble the IP traceroute. But this is only
>a desire and there is no technical reason why it should or it
>should not resemble the IP traceroute.

         Sure there is; IP traceroute works.  This is one of the best reasons
in my mind.

         --Tom


>A requirements document should leave the door open for other
>innovative ideas, unless you can prove that the traceroute-like
>mechanism is the BEST.
>
>-Shahram



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