Re: [address-policy-wg] Revised 2006-01 set back to Discussion Phase (Provider Independent (PI) IPv6 Assignments for End User Organisations)

Nick Hilliard wrote:

- while a requirement for multihoming is useful, it should be made clear during implementation that this is not necessarily a requirement for multihoming using ASNs and BGP on the public Internet (however we care to define that term). Private interconnection to third parties is also a fully legitimate justification for assignment of provider independent number resources.

Concurred. E.g., IPv6 might not be available from the second provider of a customer yet ... Another "pro": Having customers with operational (and multi-homed-able) IPv6 might increase pressure on those other ISPs that still haven't put IPv6 into productive operation ... -garry