[ih] History question -- multi-homing

[Brian E Carpenter]

The problem is that by the time ILNP came along, the Internet was too big for any chance of successful deployment. So we are indeed stuck with the need for multihomed hosts to at least pretend they are routers and know how to pick appropriate {source, destination} address pairs and next-hop routers.

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian

On 13-Sep-26 04:15, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> thanks tony.
> v
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li> wrote:
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>>
>> Hi Vint,
>>
>>> It would be an interesting exercise to posit a different identification
>>> scheme that would scale and also permit multi-homing. Has someone already
>>> worked that out? Would it require a flat ID space?
>>
>>
>> Please see RFC 6740.
>>
>> Tony
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