On Jan 13, 2011, at 10:49 , Owen DeLong wrote: >> Most people do not know about the "multi-homing feature" designed into >> IPv6. Most people who do, seem to agree that it may not see enough >> practical use to have meaningful impact on routing table growth, which >> will no longer be kept in check by a limited pool of IP addresses and >> policies that make it a little difficult for a very small network to >> become multi-homed. >> >> This may be another looming IPv6 headache without a sufficient >> solution to set good practices now, before deployment sky-rockets. >> > It's well known that IPv6 will require a scalable routing solution and that > one has not yet been developed. I'll be surprised if there isn't more > progress out of IETF on this issue in the near future. >
The RRG of the IRTF has spent the last two years on this topic. A summary of the discussed solutions can be find in: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-rrg-recommendation-16 A spin off of that activity is the LISP WG in the IETF (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lisp/charter/) Luigi > Owen > >
