RE: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> ...
> Unless I'm mistaken nobody here has proposed a solution that 
> has this problem. If/when addresses are changed somewhere, 
> they are either changed back later, 

Through a complex mechanism that scales worse than inter-domain
multicast. Since that has proven to be a real deployment challenge, why
do we think magic translator protocols are going to be any better?

Tony

> or the destination is 
> aware of the relationship between the old and new address. In 
> other words: any address that an application communicates to 
> the other end remains valid. Reachable is another question... 
> Apps should consider using more than one address.
> 
>