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	Title		: IPv6 Site Multihoming: Now What?
	Author(s)	: P. Savola
	Filename	: draft-savola-multi6-nowwhat-00.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 2003-4-25
	
ROUTING ARCHITECT'S WARNING: flagrant IPv4 site multihoming practices
cause a significant increase the routing table size, change rates and
instability, the tragedy of the commons by encouraging selfish
routing practices, the exhaustion of the 16-bit AS number space, and
may collapse the Internet interdomain routing architecture.
As there has been a desire to avoid similar problems as seen with
IPv4, the use of similar techniques to achieve site multihoming has
been prevented operationally in IPv6.  However, the long effort to
proceed with other IPv6 multihoming mechanisms has produced lots of
heat but little light.  This memo tries to list available techniques,
split the organizations to different types to separately examine
their multihoming needs, to look at the immediate and short-term
solutions for these organization types, and to list a few immediate
action items on how to proceed with IPv6 site multihoming.

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