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Best regards,
Ole

> On 15 Mar 2016, at 14:14, Chris Bowers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> RTGWG,
> 
> We scheduled a significant amount of time in Buenos Aires for a discussion of 
> multi-homing for provider-assigned IPv6 addresses for enterprise networks as 
> well as homenet.  I want to explain the motivation for this and provide some 
> background on the topic.  And hopefully spark some discussion on the list 
> before Buenos Aires, as well.
> 
> RTGWG adopted draft-ietf-rtgwg-dst-src-routing last October in the context of 
> supporting multi-homing for provider-assigned IPv6 addresses in homenet.  In 
> Yokohama, the v6ops WG had a lengthy discussion about the need for a solution 
> to support multi-homing for provider-assigned IPv6 addresses for enterprise 
> networks in general (as opposed to just homenet).  This discussion took place 
> in the context of draft-ietf-v6ops-design-choices.  That discussion can be 
> found at:
> 
> https://youtu.be/VzH7yqqGiGc?t=5835
> 
> This discussion led to the email (copied below) from Fred Baker in his role 
> as v6ops co-chair to the chairs of several working groups in which drafts 
> related to this topic are being discussed.
> 
> Our meeting in Buenos Aires includes a 20 minute time slot to discuss the 
> background and motivation of this request from v6ops.  The topic of 
> multi-homing for provider-assigned IPv6 addresses has a long history with 
> many documents written, so I thought it would be useful to highlight a few of 
> the more recent documents that I found to be particularly useful reading.
> 
> RFC 7157 "IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation"
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7157/
> 
> draft-ietf-6man-multi-homed-host-06 "Routing packets from hosts in a 
> multi-prefix network"
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-multi-homed-host/
> 
> In addition, it would obviously be useful read or re-read the RTGWG document 
> on this topic:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-dst-src-routing/
> 
> There following expired document is also helpful.
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-baker-rtgwg-src-dst-routing-use-cases-01.txt
> 
> And finally, this document is useful to understand a concrete proposal for 
> how src/dst routing information could be carried in a link-state routing 
> protocol.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-baker-ipv6-isis-dst-src-routing/
> 
> I look forward to a fruitful discussion on this topic on the list and in 
> Buenos Aires.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker (fred) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2015 11:03 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]; 6man Chairs 
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected] WG <[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>
> Subject: PA Address Multihoming in IPv6
> 
> This email is being sent in accordance with the v6ops charter, which calls 
> for the working group to communicate operational issues and requirements to 
> working groups that are chartered to address them.
> 
> The IETF's current primary recommendation for multihoming of midrange 
> enterprise networks - those that cannot justify the costs and overheads of a 
> PI address and in fact multihome - is to obtain a provider-allocated prefix 
> from each of their upstream networks, and deploy a /64 out of each on each 
> LAN in their networks.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4213
> 4213 Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers. E. Nordmark,
>     R. Gilligan. October 2005. (Format: TXT=58575 bytes) (Obsoletes
>     RFC2893) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (DOI: 10.17487/RFC4213)
> 
> This has a number of issues, not the least of which is in the back end OSS 
> software, which needs to now scale to a much larger number of prefixes, 
> handle multiple addresses in DNS for servers and perhaps clients, resolve 
> reverse DNS queries, and so on. It also is obviously carrying that much more 
> information in routing.
> 
> One outcome of v6ops' discussions this morning was that PI multihoming 
> demonstrably works, but PA multihoming when the upstreams implement BCP 38 
> filtering requires the deployment of some form of egress routing - 
> source/destination routing in which the traffic using a stated PA source 
> prefix and directed to a remote destination is routed to the provider that 
> allocated the prefix. The IETF currently has no such recommendation, or 
> consensus that it should have. However, enterprise networks are known to 
> delaying operational deployment of IPv6 in part due to the complexities 
> visited upon them and the cost of the back end software upgrades, and this is 
> part of that issue.
> 
> Without trying to limit the options available to the working groups in 
> question, I'll point out that options currently on the table include the 
> following. There are also current open source implementations of 
> source/destination and source-specific routing in IS-IS, OSPFv3, and Babel.
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-baker-ipv6-isis-dst-src-routing
>  "IPv6 Source/Destination Routing using IS-IS", Fred Baker, David
>  Lamparter, 2015-10-19
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-boutier-babel-source-specific
>  "Source-Specific Routing in Babel", Matthieu Boutier, Juliusz
>  Chroboczek, 2015-05-27
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-multi-homed-host
>  "Routing packets from hosts in a multi-prefix network", Fred Baker,
>  Brian Carpenter, 2015-10-15
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend
>  "OSPFv3 LSA Extendibility", Acee Lindem, Sina Mirtorabi, Abhay Roy, Fred
>  Baker, 2015-10-08
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-dst-src-routing
>  "Destination/Source Routing", David Lamparter, 2015-10-17,
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sarikaya-6man-sadr-overview
>  "Source Address Dependent Routing and Source Address Selection for IPv6
>  Hosts: Problem Space Overview", Behcet Sarikaya, Mohamed Boucadair,
>  2015-08-17
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sarikaya-6man-sadr-ra
>  "IPv6 RA Option for Source Address Dependent Routing", Behcet Sarikaya,
>  2015-06-08
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sarikaya-dhc-6man-dhcpv6-sadr
>  "DHCPv6 Solution for Source Address Dependent Routing", Behcet Sarikaya,
>  2015-05-08
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-ospf-multi-homing-ipv6
>  "Extending OSPFv3 to Support Multi-homing", Mingwei Xu, Shu Yang,
>  Jianping Wu, Fred Baker, 2015-10-11,
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-baker-rtgwg-src-dst-routing-use-cases
> 
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