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Talking to Stuff In The Network: Middlebox Communication Models
draft-shore-midcom-protos-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Author Melinda Shore
Last updated 2003-10-21
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

It is increasingly common for applications to want to influence the behavior of equipment in the network, in violation of various tenets underpinning the the design of IP. A number of different mechanisms and architectures have been proposed, and this very drafty draft is a hoped to be a start at discussing some of the issues related to protocols used for middlebox communication.

Authors

Melinda Shore

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