Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

[Brian E Carpenter]

"David R. Conrad" wrote:
> 
> [I suspect this should probably go over to ipng or something, so this'll
> be my last post]

Yes. 
> 
> > You can't simply banish multihoming by fiat
> 
> Wouldn't think of it (always thought the arguments that multi-homing to
> different providers wasn't necessary were unrealistic).
> 
> But I thought the official solution to multi-homing in v6 was an
> (provider allocated) address per interface.  I will admit I haven't been
> following this too closely.  Which document(s) did I miss?

There are multiple solutions or proto-solutions, including the ones
that we use for IPv4. But it's a hard problem (not because of IPv6
particularly - it's intrinsically hard). So it is an ongoing discussion
in the WG.

  Brian