Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at orchard.arlington.ma.us>]

> There is also a potential scaling issue of using multiple addresses 
> as general purpose multihomging mechanism. This is because if this 
> is the case, most of the Internet hosts will end up with multiple 
> addresses. 

I don't see why this is inherently a problem.

> It's possible that some multihomed sites will have to assign 4 or even 
> more ip addresses per host, depend on what kind of ISPs they multihoming 
> with. E.g. a site that happen to multihome to two tier-2 ISPs, each 
> multihomed with two different tier-1 ISPs, each host in this multihomed
> site will have 4 IP addresses in order to get full benefit of redundancy. 
> One can image even more complicated case.

I believe that it should be fairly straightforward to extend
implementations to deal with this case; some of the proposals floating
about actually significantly simplify the API's used by real
applications.

					- Bill