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Re: policy support [was Re: load-balancing]

To: Steve Deering <deering@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: policy support [was Re: load-balancing]
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:51:37 -0600
CC: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Ben Black <ben@layer8.net>, multi6@ops.ietf.org
Delivery-date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:55:02 -0800
Envelope-to: multi6-data@psg.com
Organization: IBM

Steve Deering wrote:
> 
> At 10:44 AM -0600 2/16/01, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> >What this seems to say is that multi-homing needs policy support
> 
> For *some* customers, yes.  Not sure if that needs to be on this WG's
> plate, though.  Would it make any sense to first figure out if we can
> support a large number of traffic-sharing-multihomed sites of any sort,
> and later worry about trying to balance the flows or engineer the
> traffic or apply policy constraints?

I think it needs to be on the requirements list, which doesn't mean that
the initial solutions need to support it.

   Brian

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