RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, J. Noel Chiappa wrote:

> E.g. if a (large enough) bunch of customers band together and create an
> exchange, which buys service from multiple ISP's, and which is given an
> address which is visible over the same scope as those ISP's, and the
> customers are addressed as part of that exchange, you meet the policy goal
> (being able to change providers) *without* so-called "PI" addresses. But the
> addresses are still connectivity-based.

Semantics. The exchange would be the "provider" here.

BTW, this looks an awful lot like geographical addressing and
aggregating. Now if we virtualize the exchange that saves a lot of iron.