Re: comments on requirements draft

[Michael Richardson <mcrietf@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Huston <gih@telstra.net> writes:
    Geoff> I would tend to suggest that growth in multi-homing is a cost and
    Geoff> perception issue.  If the cost of multi-homing is considered to be
    Geoff> sufficiently low and the perception of service reliability is also
    Geoff> sufficiently low then you will see increased activity in
    Geoff> multi-homing. Increase the perception of reliability, or make

  As a consumer of multihoming...

  Small (100 person and less) organizations have it very difficult.

  The current service reliabilities are just far too low. We can easily
consume more than 1 unit of bandwidth (whether that was a 56K, a T1 or
now a 10Mb ATM VC), so it makes a lot of sense to buy a second unit from
another provider.
  But, as a small organization we did not get provider independant space
when we started (likely private network space, but not always), and ISPs
willing to deal with us are either:
	1) too small to have the multiple connections
	2) too big to care

  Almost every 100 person organization that I know of with these kinds
of needs finds that multihoming is too expensive, but no amount of money gets 
us good service.
  We go for ad-hoc solutions: e.g. a pair of web caches with different
default routes with ICP between them. The assumption that everything is HTTP
often bites here as well...

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