Re: IETF multihoming powder: just add IPv6 and stir

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

On fredag, maj 2, 2003, at 20:15 Europe/Stockholm, Joe Abley wrote:

> On Friday, May 2, 2003, at 09:09 Canada/Eastern, Iljitsch van Beijnum 
> wrote:
>
> > There are quite a few limitations for people that want to multihome 
> > in v4. Not everyone may be aware of those and subsequently 
> > underestimate the latent need for multihoming. So it might be good to 
> > document this after all.
> I am still very happy to collate ideas and edit that document, if 
> people are happy for me to do so.
>
> The main reason it stalled last time was that I wasn't happy being the 
> only one writing down a description of current practices, since many 
> different people are doing many different things for many different 
> reasons, and there weren't many contributors to the doc at the time. 
> It got as far as "rip all the v4 stuff out of the requirements doc 
> into a separate doc", and that was about it.
If we think that this will actually help us move forward - by all 
means, I think we should do it. If it is as Iljitsch say, that there 
are valid and tricky cases that should be documented, maybe we should 
do that. But I think you have a point in that  we then need to get more 
peole providing feedback.

- kurtis -