Subject: RV: I-D ACTION:draft-bagnulo-multi6-mhtb-00.txt

From: "marcelo bagnulo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:25:43 +0100

Hi,

we have submited the following draft to the wg consideration.
It basically addresses an operational issue, rather than the key issues
Feedback about if this is a real deployment issue would be very welcome.

Regards, marcelo

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> Asunto: I-D ACTION:draft-bagnulo-multi6-mhtb-00.txt
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> 	Title		: Multi-Homing Tunnel Broker (MHTB)
> 	Author(s)	: M. Bagnulo
> 	Filename	: draft-bagnulo-multi6-mhtb-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 13
> 	Date		: 2004-2-2
> 	
> RFC 3178 [1] describes a solution to provide site multi-homing
> support in IPv6. RFC 3178 multi-homing solution uses tunnels between
> the different ISPs and the multi-homed site to provide alternative
> paths in case that one of the exit links is down, protecting the
> multi-homed site from outages in the direct link with its providers.
> 
> However, the wide adoption of RFC 3178 multi-homing solution implies
> the manual configuration of numerous tunnels on the ISPs, which may
> impose an important workload in ISP network administrators. This note
> proposes the usage of Multi-Homing Tunnel Brokers to automatically
> configure the ISP tunnel endpoint in order to ease the adoption of
> the solution.
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