v6 multihoming and route filters

["Azinger, Marla" <marla_azinger@eli.net>]

Hello-  I have reviewed Marc Banchets document on IP V6 Routing Policy Guidelines Filename:  draft-ietf-v6ops-routing-guidelines-00.txt

I am concerned that the current draft does not include detailed routing guidelines for multihoming.  This document does not include guidelines for multihoming in the current V6 routing framework. V6 can be used identically like V4 to do multihoming and this is what I would like to do with V6. 

I currently have customers asking for this ability and none of them wish to wait for solutions that may not be fully developed for a couple more years.  Also, my customers don't want to get PI space (even under the new V6 PI policy), so this means I need to give them a /48 and set up multihoming.  However, as all policy and practices sit right now, everyone filters on a /32.

I ask the V6 WG to create a "best practice for multihoming" that can be utilized today.  I ask that you please insert the solution to filter at /48 thus allowing "upstream providers" to provide multihoming to their customers.  This solution is needed to support providers creating V6 networks and this solution can easily be added into Marc's "IP V6 Routing Policy Guidelines" document. 

Thank you for your time
Marla Azinger
IP Engineering
Frontier Communications