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Title : A road-map for multihoming in IPv6
Author(s) : K. Lindqvist
Filename : draft-kurtis-multi6-roadmap-00.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 2003-2-25
IPv6 was decided as the replacement to the widely deployed IPv4 in
1992. The new protocol was designed to meet a number of criteria
that at that time was seen as the failures of IPv4, such as security
and limited address space.
IPv6 meet these needs, but it fails to meet other needs of the
Internet of today such as scalable solutions for multihoming and
portable address space for end-sites. The effects of the lack of
scalable solutions to this is widely documented.
In order to solve the multihoming scalability problems, the multi6
working group was created in the IETF. This group have so far not
yet produced any documents as it has been hard to find consensus on
even the most basic documents such as requirements. Multi6 have also
suffered from problems reaching consensus on what type of solution
will be required moving forward, and the attempt of trying to come up
with a 'fit-all' solution from day one.
This document tries to outline steps that could be taken to better
understand the problem and what steps could be taken as we bit by bit
tries to address the problem.
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