shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

[Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>]

>  From: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
> Subject: shim6 @ NANOG
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:11:45 -0400


Public thanks to Dave, Geoff, Vijay, Ted and Jason for their
involvement in bringing shim6 to the NANOG conference.

The messages I heard were:

1) Traffic engineering, traffic engineering and traffic engineering
    - do NOT put this in the hands of the end system, this needs to
be site level, or at the very least the site needs to be able to
override the end system's decisions.

2) The first hit is of critical importance to content providers (many
of whom couldn't legitimately justify a /32).  Hunting through DNS to
find a locator that works won't fly.

3) It was good to hear in a widespread forum that shim6 is not
expected to be THE only multihoming solution.  However, we were left
uninformed as to where the other work is going on.