Re: scope of solution..

[Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> one of Margaret Wasserman's notes talked about the solution coming
> from either "the routing system" or "the hosts".
> 
> Since we're talking about *site* multihoming, there are (at least)
> three scopes here:
> 
>  - the routing systems of the ISP's outside the site
> 
>  - the routing system within the site
> 
>  - the hosts within the site.
> 
> A scalable multihoming solution could involve some form of
> coordination between the site's routers and the site's hosts..

IMHO:

A scalable multihoming solution can *not* involve any form of coordination
beyond the site and it each of it's seperate providers 
(provider<->site<->provider not any provider<->provider and certantly no
<->world) .