Re: [mif] definition of a MIF host

[Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet at viagenie.ca>]

- thanks. it is in fact very good input. the monami6 definition is
however a bit v6 specific (eg. prefixes advertised on the link) where
mif shall be af agnostic. I'll adapt it for mif.

Marc.

Nicolas Montavont a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> (I'm only starting to follow this group, so I hope my question was not
> discussed before...)
> 
> I'd like to come back on the discussion on a MIF host as defined in
> draft-blanchet-mif-problem-statement-00.
> 
> In the former WG Monami6, we worked on the following document:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-monami6-multihoming-motivation-scenario-03.txt
> 
> 
> where we also proposed a definition for a multihomed node. We came up
> with the following definitions:
> 
>    Interface
> 
>       A node's point of attachment to a link (as defined in [5])
> 
>    Multihomed Node
> 
>       A node (either a host or a router) is multihomed when it has
>       several global IPv6 addresses to choose between, i.e. in the
>       following cases when it is either:
> 
>       *  multi-prefixed: multiple prefixes are advertised on the link(s)
>          the node is attached to, or.
> 
>       *  multi-interfaced: the node has multiple interfaces to choose
>          between, on the same link or not.
> 
> Basically it says that a node is multi-homed as soon as it has multiple
> addresses of the same scope, from which it can choose to send data
> packets. What was good IMHO in this definition, is that it is concise
> and does not try to cover all cases where you can end up in that case.
> 
> So for the purpose of draft-blanchet-mif-problem-statement-00, I would
> suggest to keep the definition very short, and then have examples in
> another section that show how a host can be multi-homed / MIF (several
> interfaces, several administrative domains, etc).
> 
> In the same sense, I think that the bullet "Communications using these
> IP addresses may happen simultaneous and independently." should not be
> in the definition, but again, in some explanations of scenarios.
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolas
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