so this is like hop/hop or bilateral exchanges, presuming that there
is no policy consideration between any given two points along the
complete path (outbound & return) that finds your particular packet
"offensive" and tosses it w/o any abilitiy to notify the originating
party.
%
% The point being that if you have an arbitrary bunch of firewalls and
% NATs between any two points, then you are forced into telephone-like
% "call set-up" scenarios, which don't really scale to large groups,
% specially when the application consists of sporadic messages to
% arbitrary destinations.
%
% -----Original Message-----
% From: Keith Moore [mailto:moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu]
% Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 6:01 PM
% To: Bill Manning
% Cc: Keith Moore; David T. Perkins; Michael Richardson;
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
% Subject: Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables
%
%
% > e.g. it takes (at least) two to tango... or peer.
%
% "at least". yes.
%
% Keith
%
%
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--bill