{"draft":"draft-ietf-shim6-proto-12","doc_id":"RFC5533","title":"Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6","authors":["E. Nordmark","M. Bagnulo"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"124","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation","abstract":"This document defines the Shim6 protocol, a layer 3 shim for\r\nproviding locator agility below the transport protocols, so that\r\nmultihoming can be provided for IPv6 with failover and load-sharing\r\nproperties, without assuming that a multihomed site will have a\r\nprovider-independent IPv6 address prefix announced in the global IPv6\r\nrouting table.  The hosts in a site that has multiple provider-\r\nallocated IPv6 address prefixes will use the Shim6 protocol specified\r\nin this document to set up state with peer hosts so that the state\r\ncan later be used to failover to a different locator pair, should the\r\noriginal one stop working.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"June 2009","keywords":["[-------]","locator pair"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC5533","errata_url":null}