On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
I'm not sure I agree that the end state is 100% multihoming. I can certainly agree that more multihoming is coming. Many more people are pushing for multihoming today than in previous years, apparently telco instability (financial not technical) is/has driven this :) (among other things I'm sure)
I agree that the end state is *NOT* 100% multihoming. It is too complex for most people and there is no business justification for it. But an awful lot of business customers will be able to justify multihoming. That is part and parcel of the "mission critical" Internet.
It'd be interesting to see how many 'providers' can't qualify for a /32 and will have multihomed in v6 and will thus have more than 1 /48 assigned and thus more than 1 /64 per customer... Say someone like Covad or Rythyms or perhaps even a cable-isp? In these instances each consumer will actually be multihomed, yes? The complexity just landed on your grandmama's doorstep. -Chris