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Re: Network Edge definition (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

"Michael W. Condry" <condry@intel.com> Wed, 28 February 2001 17:40 UTC

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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:29:00 -0800
To: Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>, joaquin.riverarodriguez@telefonica-data.com, jag@kw.com.cn
From: "Michael W. Condry" <condry@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Network Edge definition (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))
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When we consider applications services there are many logical points
to call the network edge, for just one example see
                 draft-erickson-opes-taxonomy-00.txt


At 12:10 PM 2/8/2001 +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>At 09:17 08/02/2001 +0100, joaquin.riverarodriguez@telefonica-data.com wrote:
>>Anyway, I agree with Mr Gao that it will be usefull to have a distinguishing
>>name for the last network element, something like ONE "outest network 
>>element"
>>or END "edge netework device" or any other that may be chosen.
>
>I think the (layer 3) network edge is inside my computer, where the TCP 
>stacks interfaces to the applications. The layer 7 network edge is even 
>further in.
>
>A much mmore interesting edge is the edge of a control area (where the 
>corporate edge meets the ISP edge, or where the corporate network meets my 
>in-house network, for instance).
>
>Very few things change where my drop-cable plugs into my hub.
>
>--
>Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
>+47 41 44 29 94
>Personal email: Harald@Alvestrand.no

Michael W. Condry
Director, Network Edge Technology

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