Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> > Content providers and other large business, without who's funds the Internet
> > would fail, have a right not to be tied to a single provider.  And while I
>
> The "shimming" model is a way to solve this by the endsystems knowing
> about multihoming, instead of the network. I personally think this is a
> better idea and scales much better. Let's have the network moving packets

cause each end node knows about the upstream network 'problems' so well?
giving them full routes too are we? ( I don't want to fight this arguement
here, I'm just making a rhetorical question, one I hope there will be a
presentation this nanog to also argue over :) )