Re: [fun] status of the homenet effort

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hi Jari,

> As Mark noted, some aspects of diagnostics and troubleshooting are
> inherent in the notion of automatic configuration. Prefix delegation,
> routing, etc. has to figure out if there is connectivity and what to do
> if there isn't. But its mostly automatic, not built for human network
> managers to play with.

Well honestly while I agree that automation is great for vast majority 
of home networks, unfortunately for someone like me it is just scary - 
maybe too scary. If I buy or rent a car I always pick manual ... (maybe 
wrong comparison maybe not ... but it is just a matter of awareness of 
one's skills of control).

> I think multihoming solutions should be out of scope.

Maybe I was not sufficiently precise. I am not asking to roll-out new 
models of PIC or active/active load balancing for home networks.

I am just trying to see a room for a spec which would define what should 
be the CPE behaviour when someone connects two DSL/Cable/Mixed lines to 
it. I hope we would not prohibit it ... and if not the behaviour needs 
to be either defined here or referenced as Mark mentioned earlier to 
other documents which solve this already.

Many thx,
R.