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Re: IPv6 news

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Sat Oct 15 15:29:32 2005

In-Reply-To: <65D7A288-FD0D-4EED-BF8A-005FE59C1465@sackheads.org>
Cc: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:29:02 -0700
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> So the IETF identified 4 reasons to multihome.  Of those 4, shim6  
> ignores at least 2 of them (operational policy and cost), and so  
> far as I can see glosses over load sharing.


If you have a solution that satisfies all requirements, you should  
contribute it.  Shim6 is indeed a partial solution to the stated  
requirements.  There was no tractable solution found to all  
requirements, and to not solve any of the issues was seen as  
basically fatal.

Tony


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