[ih] History question -- multi-homing

[John Day]

Depends on whether their point of attachment changes. Each is somewhere at any point in time.

Or as Firesign Theater said:
How Can You Be in Two Places at Once, When You Are No Place At All.  ;-)

> On Sep 13, 2026, at 05:19, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> what happens if two corresponding nodes change their locators at the same
> time?
> 
> v
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 12:15 PM vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> thanks tony.
>> v
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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