Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:16:41AM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Trying to solve the problem of people not trusting ISPs by changing the
> technology to ensure that people *must* trust one ISP (IPv6 IMHO is just
> such a technology) is not a very customer friendly attitude. It does not
> work and will not work.

Not that I know anything, but in my opinion, you are inaccurate in two
respects here.

Firstly, IPv6 *technology* is not the issue. You can do everything that
you could do in IPv4 with IPv6, and this includes the current methodology for
multihoming. It also introduces another way of multihoming, which is akin
to taking PA space from multiple upstreams and initiating/receiving connections
according to some well defined algorithms. 

I don't think there is any case to be made that the technology forces
a user to trust one ISP.

Secondly, however, it has been in my limited experience IPv6 *policy*
which has been perhaps more restrictive, inflexible and badly defined
than necessary, and in particular address allocation policy. Thankfully
this is well on the way to being changed, particularly after the developments
of the last RIPE meeting. If you are interested, you should contribute;
that way we all benefit from your insights.

Niall

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