> However, this seems like a major change in the vision of the internet to me. The vision of the Internet is that the network does little more than moving pack

> However, this seems like a major change in the vision of the internet to me. The vision of the Internet is that the network does little more than moving packets from point A to point B, with all the intelligence being in the endpoints. That way, the core network doesn't have to be upgraded for every little change in the protocols; protocol evolution happens on the edges of the network. Please read the classic "World of Ends" (http://www.worldofends.com/ http://www.worldofends.com/), and the technical article it links to, "End-to-end arguments in system design" (http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/Papers/EndtoEnd.html http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/Papers/EndtoEnd.html).