Re: Regionally aggregatable address space for multihoming

[Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>]

At 03:30 PM 6/11/01, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>So the main threat to the routing table are the multihomed networks. It would
>be nice to know how many people or business will be multihomed in the future,
>but there are no real figures.

Assume somewhere approaching 100%. Businesses are relying on the Internet 
for mission critical applications. They want ways to not be out-of-business 
in the event of anything from a failure within the cables running down the 
telephone poles to a routing architecture or peering collapse at one of 
their upstreams (e.g. PSI and C&W snipping ties with each other).

Whatever solution, we need to find methods that at least PERMIT every 
business to be multi-homed. Yes, this is a hard problem to solve. I believe 
that's the scope of the problem, though, and we need to find a better 
answer than trying to convince people they should not multihome.


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