Dobbins, Roland wrote:
The *actual* end-to-end principle states that whenever possible and whenever it makes sense, application-specific functionality ought to be incorporated into end-nodes rather than into intermediary systems.
Wrong. See below how it is stated.
b) LISP is closer to adherence to the end-to-end principle than the current routing system.
W.r.t. multihoming, neither follows the end to end principle of: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/Publications/PubPDFs/End-to-End%20Arguments%... The function in question can completely and correctly be implemented only with the knowledge and help of the application standing at the endpoints of the communication system. Therefore, providing that questioned function as a feature of the communication system itself is not possible. (Sometimes an incomplete version of the function provided by the communication system may be useful as a performance enhancement.) Masataka Ohta