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Re: TE & SHIM6 (was Re: comments on draft-ietf-shim6-proto-03



On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:16:15AM -0800, Erik Nordmark wrote:
> David Meyer wrote:
> 
> >	Have folks seen Jason Schiller's slides from NANOG 35?
> >	Might be useful to review those for some of the issues
> >	that (some set of) providers are seeing:
> >
> >	http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0510/pdf/schiller.bof.pdf
> 
> It would actually be useful for somebody to do the exercise of 
> determining which issues are fundamental because each site has multiple 
> prefixes, and what issues are specific to shim6.
> 
> For instance, even in GSE the host selects which of multiple destination 
> addresses to use, at least for the initial packet exchange.
> But in GSE the host doesn't select the source address; the border 
> routers set the source address.
> 
> I don't think we are very far away from allowing the routers to change 
> the source locator in shim6, but I don't feel we collectively 
> (IETF+NANOG etc) know how useful such a capability would be.

	There is also the (important, IMO) question as to whether
	IPv4-style TE can be made to scale in any event,
	independent of the IP version or the existence (or
	non-existence) of shim6.

	Dave


	

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