Re: Requirement document last call (let's focus!)

[Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Eliot Lear wrote:

> As I previously wrote:
>
> Section 3.1.3 Performance:
>
> >    For example, suppose site E obtains transit from transit providers T1
> >    and T2, and there is long-term congestion between T1 and T2.  The
> >    multihoming architecture MUST allow E to ensure that in normal
> >    operation none of its traffic is carried over the congested
> >    interconnection T1-T2.  The process by which this is achieved MAY be
> >    a manual one.
>
> Why are we adding the caveat of the last sentence?  Manual anything is bad.

Unfortunately, while we may like to say manual anything is bad, there
always will be circumstances where some tweaking will have to be done.
There are just no getting around that fact.


> This seems overly broad.  I think what you mean is the following:
>
>     It MUST be theoretically possible to deploy a multihomed site that
>     is no less secure than a single-homed site.

I'm fine with this.

/vijay