Re: initial issues

[Ben Black <ben@layer8.net>]

Eliot,
	I agree on all counts.  What we are hoping for is a taxonomy and
requirements document.  Can you offer a few examples of how you see
multihoming being defined?

I recall:

	1) The most common, large-scale meaning of an AS attached to
           multiple other ASes.

	2) Any network element (including a single host) attached to
           multiple other network elements.  Christian raised this in
           the context of mobility, I believe.

What else do people see now or envision for the future, regardless of
the solution?


Ben

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:31:25PM -0800, Eliot Lear wrote:
> 
> 
> Thomas Narten wrote:
> > So for now, I think it would be good to stick with your first note,
> > i.e., defining just what multihoming is and what its requirements are.
> 
> Thomas,
> 
> I half agree with you on these points, and I might even agree with you
> 100% depending on what you meant.  As we saw in the BoF in San Diego,
> multihoming can mean different things to different people.  What it
> boiled down to was this: multihoming at what level?  I believe we should
> develop proposals that address this in their entirety so that we do not
> make the same mistake we did years ago by excluding ideas that merely
> needed time to mature or otherwise mutate into things more useful.  I
> wouldn't want to take forever, but I also wouldn't want to move in
> haste.
> 
> Comments?
> --
> Eliot Lear
> lear@cisco.com