Re: Router solutions

[Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>]

On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 05:03 Canada/Eastern, Kurt Erik Lindqvist  
wrote:

> > > I think this is text is addressing several questions.
> > >
> > > I think it would be a good starting point for the WG item describing  
> > > how multihoming is done today (but isn't there such a document  
> > > already?).
> > I made a first cut as such a document by ripping relevant text out of  
> > the -01 requirements draft, but it was really rough and needs lots of  
> > work. There were a few operators and researchers at the time who  
> > offered to lend their experience to the draft to make it more useful,  
> > but those offers of assistance didn't materalise at the time for one  
> > reason or another (the rapid transition from room-to-think to  
> > fear-of-being-laid-off at the time had more than a little to do with  
> > it).
> >
> > I would be very happy to lend time to making that document useful, if  
> > there is interest in doing so (and in contributing opinions and text  
> > to it). I'm not sufficiently naive to think that consensus on such a  
> > document would be a trivial thing to achieve, but I suspect it might  
> > be easier to obtain than consensus on the requirements draft :)
> I would suggest to incorporate the text from Iljitsch document if  
> needed, and I would be willing to contribute as well.
>
> BTW, what is the name of the document?
Iljitsch's document is here: http://www.muada.com/routersol.txt

The document I mentioned is here:  
http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/xld-ids/draft-ietf-multi6-v4-multihoming- 
00.txt

I had hoped to find time to work on merging these already, but that  
hasn't happened yet. I should have time before the end of the week, but  
if anybody else feels like having a go before then they should feel  
very welcome.


Joe