RE: charter

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

trust me.  i am actually an operator.  if multi-homing does not deliver
redundancy/reliability and load balancing to the customer, then this
wannabe-wg will not start.  period.  end of story.

randy

> I believe what Ran proposed in fact is a universal benefit to ISPs and
> users. If we can achieve the goals (and I think reqs) below I believe cost
> will be reduced and reduce the need for load balancing and TE greatly.
> Because if the multihome solution optimizes the DFZ then cost is reduced for
> all.
> 
> regards,
> /jim 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ext Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com]
> > Sent: Thursday,February 15,2001 2:53 PM
> > To: Ran Atkinson
> > Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: charter
> > 
> > 
> > > The WG will prefer multi-homing solutions that tend to 
> > > minimise adverse impacts on the end-to-end routing system and 
> > > minimise (or strongly preferably shrink) the number of prefixes 
> > > that need to be advertised in the Default-Free Zone (DFZ).
> > 
> > as an ops weenie, i have no problem with those goals for sure.  as
> > long as the customers' needs for redundancy and load balancing (i
> > think ben preferred the term traffic engineering) are met.  after
> > all, they're payin' the bills.
> > 
> > randy
> >