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[Alia Atlas <aatlas@avici.com>]

At 04:04 PM 11/17/2003, mark seery wrote:
>As soon as I sent this I knew the statement was too strong. My concern is 
>that if two routers in the same network think the same packet is part of 
>two different microflows because they use different algorithms, then 
>undesireable results could emerge. I will add no more on this subject if 
>it is the consensus of the group that either:

It is in fact extremely desirable for two routers to think of micro-flows 
differently, as long as they don't break up a micro-flow from the 
end-system perspective.  If two routers classify all packets identically 
into a set of micro-flows, then if router A sends micro-flow 1 to router B, 
router B can only send it on as a single micro-flow to one of its primary 
neighbors, instead of breaking it into different micro-flows and sending 
different micro-flows to each of B's primary neighbors.

Alia

>a) this is incorrect from a technical perspective
>b) only known practical issues are worthy of discussion
>c) this is not the time or place for this discussion
>
>thanks,
>mark