Re: multi6-functional-dec and re-homing

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:
> Brian,
>
>
> > Focussing:
> >
> >
> > > In particular, the benefits would be the capability of establishing
> > > new communications through the alternative paths.
> >
> > Well, that is an intrinsic property of IPv6 surely - if a host has
> > two addresses, and one fails, you can try the other.
>
>
> Yes, but the TCP session running will be torn down.  This implies the
> need for a shim layer, but I'm guessing Marcelo was suggesting that
> there may still mechanisms help with this case.  Am I correct in
> assuming that you think this is out of scope?

Well, I find it hard to see how a single-ended shim can help, unless
it actually turns out to be an in-host NAT, and I don't think we want
to go there, do we?

   Brian