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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