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Re: [EME] EME charter

Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com> Mon, 13 November 2006 18:10 UTC

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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:09:54 -0500
Subject: Re: [EME] EME charter
From: Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com>
To: Saikat Guha <saikat@cs.cornell.edu>, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>
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On 11/13/06 1:06 PM, "Saikat Guha" <saikat@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> To the extent that the lack of middle-to-end and end-to-middle
> communication prevents middleboxes from being truly transparent (to the
> app layer) or fully visible (to the network layer), EME resolves to
> address the problem IMHO.

That was certainly the intent behind midcom, but as long as the
endpoint needs to know the location of the middlebox in order to
transmit requests to it you haven't eliminated the lack of tranparency,
you've just moved it somewhere else.

Melinda

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