Re: NHS Record extensions seem to be unnecessary

[Joel Halpern <[e-mail]>]

When we put in the route recording option, the original motivation had
nothing to do with debugging.  The concern was how to cope with ATM
level policy restrictions.  One could easily imagine restrictions such
that ATM connections could not be established all the way to the
destination, even though it all appeared to be one ATM network. 

It was thought that by providing the forward path the source would be
able to establish the shortcut VC to the furthest possible place.  This
would serve to complement the fact that if the intiating hsot can't get
out (a nearby policy restriction) that a router down the way would
presumably establish a shortcut path after a while.  The two mechnisms
are designed to cope with the two likely policy restriction scenarios.

It was thought that these were significant issues, and I believe that
they appear on our base list describing the problem to be solved.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern				[e-mail]
Newbridge Networks Inc.