Hi,

>          It may be assumed that each upstream will be connected via a
>          separate router, not multihomed off the same router.

This seems to asume that one router equals one access network equals one
provider. I don't think that's valid as a long term assumption. Any
combination might arise - several upstreams via one router, different
routers for different upstreams, and some upstreams via more than one
router. In fact,

>       A host with mutliple upstream paths to the same destination (in-
>       home or external) should be able to use another in case on fails.

seems to contradict the assumption. Or it's about multi-prefix based
multihoming, which is a different problem altogether (see shim6 or
draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-multihoming-without-ipv6nat).

>          Must support a "walled-garden" network.  This might routing
>          based on either source address (from the walled garden network)
>          or destination address (to the walled garden network); support
>          for both is not required.

I thought that the IETF was about the Internet, so we shouldn't be
assisting the creation of walled gardens. However, source-address-based
selection of the next hop is needed anyway, to support multihoming
and deal with ingress filtering. I don't see how any scenario can
avoid destination-address-based routing, so I think that support for
both *is* required.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

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