Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

Poul-Henning Kamp;

> >	draft-ohta-e2e-multihoming-00.txt
> >
> >is dated April 2000.
> 
> And, according to IETF rules, because of its age: obsolete ?

Current most one is of version 02.

> >	draft-ohta-e2e-multihoming-00.txt
> 
> >And, now, there even is a multi6 WG of IETF.
> 
> Cool, lets see what they can disagree on in a couple of years...

IETF process is so quick that you can see it already. :-)

> Load-balancing means different things to different people...

So is multihoming.

> But that doesn't change the fact that people will still want a
> solution now, that neither "go to IPv6" nor "wait for IPv6" will
> satisfy them and that ISP's who are able to meet this demand will
> make more money than ISP's who can't...

Huh? It's you who asked about IPv6.

Anyway, I think we will use up IPv4 address space before IPv4-style
multihoming kills the backbone. It will happen within 3 years.

A good news is that, not wating multi6 WG conclude, end-to-end
multihoming will be implemented this year and used for commercial
service (IPv4 service will, of course, continue) thanks to funding
from Japanese Goverment.

						Masataka Ohta