IETF is moving forward with shim6 as the IPv6 multihoming solution. The current focus is on protocol interaction and forwarding plane outage detection. Little work is being pursued on inter-AS traffic engineering.

Inter-AS traffic engineering will be a function of the locator pair chosen by the source and destination end hosts. As a result, the following operational concerns come up:

• How does a destination provide information about inbound link utilization preferences so that a source can put the locator set in the correct order?
• Is it desirable for the inbound traffic engineering preference to be configured on all multi-homed destination end hosts?
• What are the implications traffic engineering on transit ASes?

About the Presenter
Jason Schiller is a Senior Internet Network Engineer in the IP Network Engineering Department at UUNET / MCI. He has been with the company for over seven years. His current role includes designing, evaluating, and qualifying networks for deployment in UUNET's backbone for the Americas region. Jason also completes field trials and acts as highest level of escalation for issues in the Americas continental networks and for multicast issues globally. He is also responsible for defining and maintaining global standards for each of the continental UUNET networks. Previous projects include designing the UUCast multicast network and the Latin American network. Current interests include Internet routing, multicast, and IPv6.