Re: comments on requirements draft

[Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net>]

one point at a time:


> >   Migration to IPv6, which will allow unprecedented scaling of the
> >   number of potentially multihomed sites, will seriously exacerbate
> >   this stress unless a substantially different approach to multihoming
> >   is adopted.
>
>It's not the move to IPv6 that will exacerbate the stress -- it's
>the growth of the Internet and of multihoming, regardless of which
>version of IP will be used.


I would tend to suggest that growth in multi-homing is a cost and 
perception issue.
If the cost of multi-homing is considered to be sufficiently low and the 
perception
of service reliability is also sufficiently low then you will see increased 
activity
in multi-homing. Increase the perception of reliability, or make 
multi-homing more
difficult (cost, technology required, or anything else) and you reduce the
incidence of multi-homing. To ascribe growth to multi-homing to IPv6 is a rash
statement without adequate foundation.

Geoff