Re: radical solutions

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> for the kind of site multihoming that I thought was the concern of this
> WG, isn't the problem precisely that *de*-aggregation is what is required
> today to get good multihomed service?  In the IPv4 Internet, as I
> understand it (and I trust you to gently correct me if I'm wrong) the way
> a site gets adequately multihomed today is by having a top-level,
> widely-advertised prefix, or by getting a prefix from one provider and
> punching a hole in that provider's aggregate by advertising it through
> other providers.

two nits

  o to get load balancing, the punching site also announces the longer
    prefix through the original isp.  i.e. one sees

    666.42.4/0/24  66
    666.42.4/0/24  77
    666.42.0/0/16  77

  o what's this gentle <bleep>?  you've fallen in with the operators now
    :-)/2

randy