Re: draft-dolson-plus-middlebox-benefits (was RE: Review of draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-09)

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 11 April 2017 18:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft-dolson-plus-middlebox-benefits (was RE: Review of draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-09)
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Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> BTW I don't see ECMP or load balancing listed in section 3. Those
> seem to be major applications of transport layer snooping.

no, any load balancing which needs to scale needs to be stateless, so
you don't want session based mechanisms handling this.

Nick