I share Tony's frustration with long hiatus in multi6, but it seems to be unstuck at the moment. I also agree that it's hard to separate the topics, but I see no practical advantage in repatriating the multihoming issue into this WG, which already has a diverse agenda.
Brian Alain Durand wrote: > > Tony Hain wrote: > > >This whole discussion is about multihoming, which points out the failure of > >the approach to move the multihoming discussion into a separate WG. Multi6 > >should be closed NOW, and that work should be folded back into the IPv6 WG > >so there can be a comprehensive approach to the issues (this is independent > >of the fact that the thread in an Ops WG is really about rearchitecting the > >Internet). As we stand now, all discussions about multihoming are assumed to > >be taking place over there, so we don't recognize the address selection > >discussion as being the same thing. > > > I agree that the issue discussed here is somehow related to multi-homing. > However, there is a fundamental difference. > > You are proposing to encode local reachability information into > the address format and use address selection to prefer those addresses > in order to enforce local traffic to stay local. > > The problem is that addresses are leaking and the fact that a node > is configured with a "local" address and it has a "local" address in its > list > of destination addresses does not mean that both nodes are in the > same local "realm", i.e. there is a logical path to connect them. > > So what we have here is a case where you are multihomed with > one side that is permanently unreachable from a large portion > of the universe. > > - Alain. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM NEW ADDRESS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS BOOK -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
