Re: Transport level multihoming

[Joe Abley <jabley-ietf@automagic.org>]

RJ,

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:30:18PM -0400, Greg Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> >         SCTP is interesting, but not sufficient.  The current
> > multihoming practice works with existing TCP-based and UDP-based 
> > applications, without changing them.  Changing the installed
> > base of those applications to use SCTP instead isn't feasible
> > in any sort of interesting timeframe -- if such migration is
> > feasible at all.

The requirement that no changes should be required in applications
in order to multi-home does not feature in our draft. Do you think
it should be there?

If so, why?


Joe