Re: IPv6 news

[John Payne <john () sackheads org>]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:

> designing a solution
> which misses the stated requirements of many folks actually operating
> networks

So far it's missing some of the stated requirements (reasons for  
multihoming) listed in the charter... well I was going to cut-n-paste  
like I did to my email to shim6 dated Oct 4 2005, but it seems to  
have been removed in an update... so I'll cut-n-paste from that email:

For the purposes of redundancy, load sharing, operational policy or
cost, a site may be multi-homed, with the site's network having
connections to multiple IP service providers.


So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome.  Of those 4, shim6  
ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so far  
as I can see glosses over load sharing.
I'd actually redefine load sharing to load (im)balancing, but that  
may just be pedantics.

I don't recall seeing any followup to my question, and it's not  
showing up in the list archive so maybe there's something wrong with  
my list subscription (although I have had responses to other  
postings... which are also not in the archive)