RE: Does the current CPA/CPP spec support multi-hop?

[Bob Haugen <linkage@interaccess.com>]

Stefano Pogliani:
>That's very much what I want to say.
>In the case of the eth-ppp, the hub can be configured from outside. It does
>not behave differently in different situations, at least from an external
>point of view: it moves packets from the LAN to the phone and viceversa.
>This is what I called "mechanical". This is, in my mind, a hub, not a
>partner.

>But if the behaviour of this actor depends on the trading partner agreement
>and if it cannot be configured in a mechanical way, then it starts to become
>a partner more than a hub

What if the payload is encrypted, or some non-repudiation rules apply?
Now the "hub" must be a party to the collaboration agreement, I think.
(If this configuration is feasible at all...)

-Bob Haugen