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True Multihoming solutions (Was: At the risk of being declared offtopic)

  • From: Jeroen Massar
  • Date: Wed Jan 12 13:45:29 2005

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:26 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I realize that this is more of an IETF issue than a NANOG one, but, I'd
> like to find a couple of people with some protocol background and a strong
> operational background that would be interested in trying to see if we
> can come up with a way to develop a version of IP which did not require
> a flag day, but, would facilitate a transition towards an IP where the
> End System Identifier (Host Address) could be globally unique to a given
> system (think PI space) and essentially a layer 4 construct, but, the
> Routing Tag (Network Address) could, instead, be dynamically determined
> and separate information.

Check HIP: http://hip.piuha.net/

As that is exactly what you describe.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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