On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote:
PH> One word; multihoming.
How many billion different interdomain routing policies do we really need?
Just 1 is enough to cause trouble. Given strict provider-based addressing, multihoming leads to rather nasty interactions between host-based selection of (source address, destination address) & things like the following: o routing policy o anti-spoofing... filtering o quality of service The IETF drafts I've read have not yet offered what I consider viable solutions to those issues. ________________________________________________________________________ Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 email: jay-ford@uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951