Re: Transport level multihoming

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Greg Maxwell wrote:

> Since the primary concern here is IPv6 multihoming and considering all of 
> the above, why should backwards application compatibility for multihoming
> be a factor at all?

Because very few software vendors are going to fundamentally restructure
their apps for IPv6; the changes are essentially trivial. If the multihoming
solution imposes structural change on apps, such as changing transport
protocols or the basic logic of network access, it won't happen.

   Brian