Re: int-serv over e.g. ATM

[Juha Heinanen <[e-mail]>]

trying to summarize:

- application uses int-serv to express its traffic needs

- these needs are conveyed via rsvp to ip components (routers, if any on 
the path, plus the destination host)

how should the originating host decide whether to set up a direct 
connection to the destination over atm or whether to use the router path 
assuming that both are possible?  clearly making the decision based on 
whether the destination shares a common address prefix with the source 
doesn't make any sense.  one solution might be to include such a directive 
in the api and carry it in rsvp so that also routers on the path would 
know if it makes sense to try to shortcut the path.

if this makes sense, how can we get the shotcut bit into rsvp?

-- juha