At 03:17 AM 30/11/2005, Randy Bush wrote:
Lots of efforts (Multi6, SHIM6, etc.) are being made to solve these real issues for a good reason. Regardless of the efforts, from a provider POV it's only "work in progress".
one of the key points from the nanog session was that shim6 is the *wrong* work in progress. what is needed is _site_ multi-homing, not host multi-homing.
"wrong"? "right"? Usual response - if you believe that there is a better way of doing this work through the issues here, then write up an approach, gather support, get peer review etc etc. As I said at NANOG, part of the problem with distributed models where there is action at a distance is to understand and clearly identify instances of gratuitous packet header rewriting by hostile agents as compared to packet rewriting by agents who believe that they are doing this in a friendly and helpful fashion. This becomes a challenging problem,of course. I don't think any single approach today is the one true right approach at this point, but unless we explore this space with some diligence, allow for experimentation and keep an open mind on this work then you are going to get intractably wedged between the desire for greater flexibility in the use of addresses as a form of semi-persistent endpoint identifiers and the desire for reduced flexibility in the use of addresses as forwarding tokens in order to keep the routing space confined to readily computable dimensions. But of course _all_ this will be solved in MPLS - right? :-) Geoff