Re: note from the iesg plenary

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

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Jim Bound wrote:

> Routing does not but the end node could.  Routing would be transparent to
> the solution.
> 
> I think the best multi6 proposal would be one that can start alleviating
> the pain of multihoming in v6 while we work the routing issues in general
> in the IETF.  Also this will help as IPv6 deployment is eminant and will
> not wait for us to finish.  By defining a mechanism like SCTP and use of
> proper scoping with address selection much of the multihome problem can be
> solved using the ideas from ohta-san, peter tatam et al and we can get
> this in our IPv6 production code bases by late 2002 or early 2003.
> Possbily earlier with code patches with a shim I suggested to Brian on
> other mail thread.  Do not assume the market will wait or can be held up
> at least in Asia and Europe, and now even certain target markets will
> begin early adoption in the U.S. and have already although in test phase
> now.

Are multihoming issues likely to bite any current rollout taking place? If so,
there will need to be a temporary workaround in the contingency plan, with a
strict stipulation that such a workaround has a limited lifetime.  If not, no
need to worry.

Peter

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