RE: Transport level multihoming

[Peter Tattam <peter@jazz-1.trumpet.com.au>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Greg Maxwell wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > > was very firm.  IPv6 = Strong aggregation, small DFZ.
> >
> > yes indeed.  unfortunately, to date, that rather idealistic policy has
> > lacked clear technical mechanisms with which to implement it.  and note
> > that, as this wg is in the ops area, folk here tend to be rather pragmatic
> > about utility and implementability.
> >
> > so, from that, you may be able to infer what this wg is about.
> 
> Yes, it's about excluding new ideas which have strong technical merit
> because some people believe that IPv6 has significant implementation
> momentum and that the future cost of restructuring the IPv6 Internet to
> make it scalable once it falls down is greater then the cost of
> potentially slowing this supposedly huge IPv6 momentum.
> 
> 
> 

I don't quite know which way to read this :)

Peter

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