[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

Kurt;

> > Multihoming is simple to just let hosts have multiple addresses,
> > which is already done with IPv6, and let the hosts choose
> > the destination address.
> 
> As I said, there is no shortage of ideas.

I'm saying implementations.

> There are a number of people 
> who will tell you that this won't scale and break a number of 
> applications.

Since I proposed it in April 2000, no one told me that this won't
scale.

As for applications, with darty hack, it is even possible to make
TCP-based applications work as is, but considering the number of
users of IPv6, why do you bother?

> > There already is running code of of 8+8, transport over it, such
> > as TCP, and applications over it, such as TCP multihomed telephony
> > with no address reselection latency, that there is not much work
> > remaning.
> 
> > Never mention poor GSE. It is a poor idea useless for any purpose.
> >
> Uh, what is the difference between 8+8 and GSE?

Current IPv6, in a sense, is 8+8 and was 10+6.

GSE is a poor variation of 8+8. GSE is poor because it is an attempt
to make ISP operation more complex (that is, less scalable), which
has been the tradition of telephone companies to maximize their
revenue.

						Masataka Ohta