[85669] in North American Network Operators' Group
shim6 ... easy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Oct 15 07:50:22 2005
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:49:50 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20051015084439.GA4840@srv01.cluenet.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:44:39AM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>
> Operators DO support scalable multihoming, but it has to deliver what
> they want/need. HOW this can be achieved is the task of the IETF and
> the REAL challenge. shim6 is only "the easy way out".
>
> Daniel
Easy... perhaps/perhaps not.
Shim6 is an attempt to split the endpoint identifier
from the routing locator. Unfortunately, it is not a
clean split, still co-mingling the two thus retaining
the confusion that we have today on what is an address
used for... :) Not persuaded that this is going to be
easy.
--bill
