I am agree with Thomas's opinion. It seems like some kinds of "ISP selection" rather than multihoming IMO and places additional complexity in the hosts.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Narten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:50 PM >To: ipv6@ietf.org >Subject: Re: questions about draft-wen-ipv6-rsra-opt-multihoming-00 > > >FWIW, based on my skimming of the document, I think this is a >bad approach. Reasons: > >1) the scenario is rather limited, a single link directly connected to > multiple ISPs (through different routers). IMO, this is too > limiting a scenario to develop a specifiic solution that doesn't > address a other scenarios. > >2) It places additional complexity in the hosts, and it is not clear > to me that the benefits are sufficient. Indeed, it's not > immediately clear what the "multihoming" aspect is. In my mind, > "multihoming" means having multiple ISP connections, and actually > using them simultaneously. The approach in the document seems to > consist of "pick just one", which is not multihoming IMO. Or if it > is "use multiple ones simultaneously", then the host needs to be > sure to route packets to the right router based on the source > adddresses used. That is signifificant (new) complexity and I am > not at all sure we should be doing that at this point in time. > >So, at this time, color me very skeptical to this idea. > >Indeed, I'd prefer backing up a bit and having discussions >about the problem statement and what the actual problem is >that needs solving. > >Thomas > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >ipv6@ietf.org >Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
