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	Title		: Multi-Homing Tunnel Broker (MHTB)
	Author(s)	: M. Bagnulo
	Filename	: draft-bagnulo-multi6-mhtb-00.txt
	Pages		: 13
	Date		: 2004-2-2
	
RFC 3178 [1] describes a solution to provide site multi-homing
support in IPv6. RFC 3178 multi-homing solution uses tunnels between
the different ISPs and the multi-homed site to provide alternative
paths in case that one of the exit links is down, protecting the
multi-homed site from outages in the direct link with its providers.

However, the wide adoption of RFC 3178 multi-homing solution implies
the manual configuration of numerous tunnels on the ISPs, which may
impose an important workload in ISP network administrators. This note
proposes the usage of Multi-Homing Tunnel Brokers to automatically
configure the ISP tunnel endpoint in order to ease the adoption of
the solution.

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