Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

In your letter dated Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:05:22 +0200 you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:39:43AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
>> Extending HE to do multiple source addresses (one per prefix) within
>> a adddress family will give pretty much the same robustness as
>> running BGP at the cost of some embryonic connections if the initial
>> attempt doesn't work.
>
>It will give you *better* robustness than BGP, because BGP can not send
>your packets around dataplane failures where control plane still advertises
>reachability.
>
>I find this very important to point out, again and again :-)

The good news is that in a network that provides hosts with just one prefix
this feature should be harmless.

But I'm not holding my breath for getting any kind of wide spread
implementation of such a feature.