Shim6: Network Operator Concerns

Schiller, Jason (2005) Shim6: Network Operator Concerns. In: NANOG 35, 23-25 Oct 2005, Los Angeles, California.

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Abstract

IETF is moving forward with shim6 as the IPv6 multihoming solution. The current focus is on protocol interaction and forwarding plane outage detection. Little work is being pursued on inter-AS traffic engineering. Inter-AS traffic engineering will be a function of the locator pair chosen by the source and destination end hosts. As a result, the following operational concerns come up: How does a destination provide information about inbound link utilization preferences so that a source can put the locator set in the correct order? Is it desirable for the inbound traffic engineering preference to be configured on all multi-homed destination end hosts? What are the implications traffic engineering on transit ASes? The involvement of network operators is critical at this stage to ensure that all of the needed operational requirements are considered and met.

EPrint Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Subjects:	Routing Architecture
ID Code:	270
Deposited By:	6journal Editor
Deposited On:	05 February 2007

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