Re: comments on the requirements draft

[Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>]

Then you're being penni-wise and pound foolish.  If not deploying 
multihoming means we exceed Moore's law over some period of time, we're all 
in trouble.  Let's evaluate solutions based on their technical merit, and 
not on the amount of code that will need to be written.

Eliot


At 11:09 AM 12/20/2001 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>Eliot Lear wrote:
>...
>
> > Sections 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 presume a real installed base.  There is none.
>
>No, they recognise the existence of a significant number of implementations.
>I work with development managers for host stacks, and I guarantee you
>they are not about to start over - multihoming has to be an add-on, if
>you want it to happen. I presume the same is true of router code.
>
>To me these are absolutely key requirements if you want multi6 to have
>any impact on the real world.
>
>   Brian