ipv6 multihoming for non-TLA eligible sites

William F. Maton wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:44:21 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Paul Jakma wrote:

> there has been some discussion in the past on this about how
> multi-homing is to work for ipv6 sites. as i understand it, there
> will be no equivalent of IPv4 'Provider Independent' address ranges
> with IPv6. Sites will only be able to get addresses from their ISPs
> TLA.
>
> my question is then, if the above is the case, how are IPv6 sites
> supposed to achieve ingress resiliency? are we to rely on all IPv6
> clients implementing SRV lookups?

While this doesn't answer your question completely, you may want to have a
look at the IETF multi6 working group, stuck just for this type of
discussion:

	http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/multi6-charter.html

wfms