Re: load-balancing

[Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com>]

At 12:31 PM -0800 2/15/01, Randy Bush wrote:
>but 'balancing' is exactly what the customer wants.

I assume that's what *some* (perhaps even most) customers want.  But
not all customers.  For example, the universities that are connected
to a research-and-education network (e.g., one of the Internet 2 backbones)
and a "commodity ISP" have policy reasons (AUPs) for wanting some traffic
to go one way and some the other; load-balancing is a non-goal for them. 
(In fact, in that scenario, there's often a big difference in the size of
the two pipes, and a 50/50 split of traffic is the last thing they want.)

Or are you saying you think that only load-balancing multi-homing
should be in-scope for this trying-to-be-WG?

Steve