RE: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

["Hemant Singh (shemant)" <shemant@cisco.com>]

>> Also, what node are you talking about
>> when you say "static routes in routing table"?  The host or the home 
>> router?  I think you mean host, but still it good to make such things

>> clear.
><barbara> No, I meant the router. The SP has no ability to statically
configure the hosts, just the SP router. </barbara>

Even if the SP doesn't have any ability to statically configure the
hosts, if an SP has a dedicated static IP address to a home, it is also
routine that the SP calls the home user and have the home user configure
anything static on the home PC including the IP address and any static
routes.  I personally went thru such a exercise with MCI/Worldcom for a
dedicated static IP address in my home via DSL seven years back.
Further, if any SP has more than one Internet connection to a single
home, then even if the SP cannot configure any host in the home, the
home user himself/herself has to configure various static routes to
selectively forward traffic out of the home via more than one Internet
connection.  That is the whole point of the discussion that if an SP
gives a home more than one Internet connection, the hosts in the home
would also have to have configure the selective routes - statically or
if IPv6 is used, one tool is MSR.  

Hemant