Some more words on Active Networks

• It seems to me that Active Networks can only be a compromise between security and usability.
• In the paper the API was so restricted that the only thing an active node could do was really only forward packets (maybe modify the header a little bit). Using code for this decision is superflous, source routing would give the client actually the same control.
• This would be more interesting if active nodes could actually in some way process data like aggregate information, so maybe Active Networks are interesting for Sensor-Networks like applications.