Re: The state of IPv6 multihoming development

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Michel Py wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> > Brian Carpenter wrote:
> > It clearly makes sense for small businesses, which gets
> > you into the realm of tens of thousands of MH customers
> > in a metro area. But I still have difficulty seeing it
> > for domestic customers by the million. From what I see,
> > they have enough trouble dealing with one ISP. Of
> > course, an MH solution that would scale to millions per
> > metro would be nice to have.
> 
> >From my seat, there is not much of a difference between thousands and
> millions per metro, or between millions and billions in the entire
> world. The aggregation scheme we have worked out (64K areas of 64K MH
> sites) fits the bill, and none of the 64K local routes or 64K global
> routes is unreasonable.

I'm not commenting specifically on your proposal, since I haven't
read it, but it's my intuition that any solution that is any good would
scale to millions if it would scale to tens of thousands. 

   Brian