Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

[vijay gill <vgill@vijaygill.com>]

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> > How then does the ISP perform any traffic engineering if all of the  
> > control is in
> > the end-host?  That needs a _lot_ of focus because ISPs aren't going  
> > to put their
> > COGS into the hands of their end users.
>
> See the TLV discussion that Jason started. While I'm not sure he has
> the right mechanism, there is definitely a requirement for hosts
> to switch locators on request from a TE function as well as on outage.


I am assuming all hosts are hostile. Now what.



> > Understood, but do not forget inbound path selection or weighting or  
> > preference
> > or whatever you want to call it.  That needs to be controllable from  
> > the network
> > level, not from the end hosts.
>
> Yep. I think that is also a case where hosts will need to switch
> on request.


They don't.

/vijay