Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> The point being that if you have an arbitrary bunch of firewalls and
> NATs between any two points, then you are forced into telephone-like
> "call set-up" scenarios, which don't really scale to large groups,
> specially when the application consists of sporadic messages to
> arbitrary destinations.

or in general, that networked applications sometimes involve more
than two parties that are mutually communicating (and they don't
necessarily use TCP exclusively)  a lot of the proferred solutions
seem to assume that pairwise mappings are sufficient; they aren't.

Keith