eap Mailing List: Re: network discovery & selection: problem definition

[Alper Yegin (alper]

>> I'd say network selection also impacts "data traffic routing",
>> which should not have to be hard-bound to the AAA routing (or, my home AAA
> 
> Yes, this is a good point, thanks for bringing it up! Here's a
> question for you: do you expect some mechanism which allows you
> to control data traffic routing,

I don't expect the host to control end2end routing of its data packets. But
its ISP selection will determine how the packets are routed eventually. [I'm
thinking of the scenario where a NAP - network access provider - is
providing service for multiple ISPs]

> or is the requirement simply that
> it is not hard-bound to the AAA routing? Currently, there is no
> user-level way to control routing (and probably shouldn't be). But
> access, intermediate, and home networks can control routing to
> an extent e.g. through mandatory tunneling.
> 
>> server). For example, I might want to select ISPx among several, and let
>> it charge my alper [at] visa.com account.
> 
> Hmm... wouldn't visa.com then be your home network, and the selected
> ISP just an access (or intermediate) network?

Yes, "visa.com" would be my home network in the AAA sense, but not in IP
routing sense (my data packets don't have to go through the network domain
where AAA servers reside).

Alper

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> --Jari
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