RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

["Hesham Soliman (EAB)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>]

  > > The benefit of multi-homing has a price - the only 
  > question is, who's going
  > > to pay the price? Simple fairness demands that it *ought* 
  > to be the entity
  > > which directly benefits. Multiple connectivity-based 
  > addresses do this; the
  > > end-site has to pay the bulk of the cost (in complexity, etc).
  > 
  > So who benefits if Google is multihomed? The user or the server? Or
  > both?

=> Why would Google want to be multihomed? Perhaps
to ensure that they're online 24/7? And why do they
want to do that? Perhaps so that they can maintain/increase
their customer base/profits. If that's why they do it
then it would make sense to make them pay for it.

Hesham