I-D ACTION:draft-shore-midcom-protos-00.txt

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	Title		: Talking to Stuff In The Network: Middlebox 
			  Communication Models
	Author(s)	: M. Shore
	Filename	: draft-shore-midcom-protos-00.txt
	Pages		: 11
	Date		: 2003-10-21
	
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.

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