[address-policy-wg] Re: Re: 200 customer requirements for IPv6

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:46:22PM +0100, Per Heldal wrote:
> * The current policy will work just fine combined with a
> production-quality shim6 implementation, complete with full support for
> traffic-engineering and load-balancing from all vendors.

Sorry, but please inform yourself about the technical details of shim6
first. There is no provision for traffic engineering in shim6 as we
know, use and need it today. As a completely host-centric thing this
ain't doable anyway, as a host has no faint clue about how the network
is interconnected with others. And the idea of retrofitting such stuff
into shim6 outright scares me (and many others). Let the network do it's
job.

> I believe that still is a few years down the road.

No, it's not even on shim6' radar.

shim6 is not the droid we're looking for. And we don't even need Obi-Wan
to make us believe that.


Regards,
Daniel

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