[88770] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Feb 17 00:14:17 2006
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602161805010.10270@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:13:48 -0500
To: Edward B.DREGER <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 16-Feb-2006, at 13:32, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> JA> I get the feeling that there's a lot of solutions-designing
> going on in this
> JA> thread without the benefit of prior problem-stating.
>
> Problem:
>
> Consumers want to multihome.
That sentence needs profound expansion before it's going to be
reasonable to assess any proposed solution.
(Why do they want to multi-home? What do they hope to achieve?
Redundancy? Load sharing? What trade-offs are reasonable, e.g. with
respect to the stability of individual sessions across re-homing
events? In a transaction carried between two hosts, do clients and
servers have different requirements?)
We tried to catch a reasonable number of motivations in RFC 3582, but
I bet we missed plenty.
Joe
