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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Micah,</p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Since e2e-interest is the name
of this list, it can be assumed that everybody here has as least an
intuitive understanding of what e2e issues are. Including myself.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">One could argue that
OpenFlow is just too tied to Network ans under-network Layers, and
that it has nothing to do with e2e aspects. Maybe.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I think that if end
systems become able to dynamically reconfigure the network to suit
their needs, this can change many of the assumptions made by present
days e2e protocols, rendering some parts of them unnecessary, and
other parts insufficient.</p>
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> abj</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/26 Micah Beck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbeck@eecs.utk.edu">mbeck@eecs.utk.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Hi A. B. Jr.,<div><br></div><div>Can you tell us what *you* think "end to end" means? That might help to focus the responses.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>/micah</div>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:25 PM, A.B. Jr. wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br><br>Do you believe that widespread adoption of architectures like the one described in<br>
<br><a href="http://www.internet2.edu/network/ose/" target="_blank">http://www.internet2.edu/network/ose/</a><br><br>
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<i>Built using the first production deployment of <a href="http://www.openflow.org/" target="_blank"><b>OpenFlow</b></a>
technology, NDDI will deliver a "software-defined network" (SDN), a
common infrastructure that can create multiple virtual networks,
allowing researchers to experiment with new Internet protocols and
architectures, and at the same time enabling domain scientists to
accelerate their research with collaborators worldwide.<br><br></i></div>will significantly change the meaning of "end to end"?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>-abj<br>
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