Re: [narten@us.ibm.com: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com> Mon, 17 April 2006 23:06 UTC

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From: Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>
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Igor Gashinsky wrote:

> [1] Those requirements, which shim6 currently fails to meet, again, are:
> 1) equal or better TE capabilities to PI multihoming in IPv4
> 	a) those capabilities controled site wide, not host-wide
> 	b) those capabilities covering all deployment scenarious that IPv4 
> 	   currently covers and people use heavily (ie inbound/outbound 
>     	   TE, transit TE, partial routes TE, peering TE, etc)
> 2) equal or better convergence around failures as IPv4 ie (1st packet 
> 	shim)
> 3) do all that without an undue burden on the server/SLB/proxy device

Igor,

have you looked at the ideas in draft-nordmark-shim6-esd-00.txt to see 
if there is something in there that would be helpful with respect to #1 
and #2 above?

   Erik