Consensus on MHAP/v6 Multi-homing

[Michael Loftis]

--On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 18:33 +0100 Cameron Gray 
<cgray at netegral.co.uk> wrote:

> Well at least I've proved to myself that I'm not the only one stuck in
> this quagmire.

No, you're not.  Until IPv6 gains multi-homing and PI space it can't 
replace IPv4.  The internet is not hierarchical.  Never really has been, 
and it's even less so now in this age.  A number of sites I maintain 
multi-home only for redundancy, but having even five minutes of outage to 
propagate DNS changes is completely unacceptable, so they advertise space 
via both uplinks.  The other issue is that all in-progress connections are 
broken if you change endpoint addresses (for whatever reason) on a live 
site.  This might not be a big deal for a number of different types of 
things but think of a large IRC server eh?  (yeah yeah I know, let the 
kiddies reconnect, but there are legitimate uses for IRC).

> I've joined in the discussion on address-policy-wg at RIPE, so we'll see

I'm not sure what to do myself.  I also don't have time to do it really. 
and I don't fully understand all of the options being presented to the IPv6 
WGs and standards bodies.  I'm very concerned that my concerns will end up 
in a minority in the standards bodies and thus not necessarily be 
fully...er, mind the pun as it's not really intended... addressed.


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