Re: PI/metro/geo [Re: The state of IPv6 multihoming development]

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Tony Li;

> This is blatantly unfair.  As an "arms merchant", I fully want
> to sell gear to all interested parties, both ISPs and enterprise
> alike.  And, as a certain AD is fond of reminding me, the enterprise
> is a very big market.  Why would I want to torque the enterprise?

As a person who is involved in design and operation of a nation
wide 10Gbps backbone of a commercial ISP, I can say that TE is
to have more bandwidth.

Others may have different diffinition. But, those with high cost
definition such as MPLS will, or has already, bankrupt.

It's called fair competition and is applicable to non-ISP
enterprises.

Make routers dumb and cheap.

> If we were to go down the GSE path, for
> example,

:  Note that 8+8 proposal must not be confused by latter proposal of
:  routing goof by Mike O'dell, which is a proposal to use intelligent
:  routers to rewrite source addresses to prevent source address
:  spoofing and to tunnel between intelligent routers for pseudo
:  multihoming, both of which are against the end to end principle and,
:  thus, lacks robustness and/or scalability.

						Masataka Ohta