Subject: RE: [mobile-ip] About draft-jung-mobileip-fastho-hmipv6-00

From: Hesham Soliman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:13:54 -0400

> Hi,
 >     Does anyone agree that the MAP will be overburdened?

=> This largely depends on two factors:
- The sizes/capacity of the routers
- MAP discovery mechanism: This will prvode a form 
of load sharing. So you can imagine having a "cluster"
of MAPs (2 or 3) within each MAP domain that share
the load. 

The default MAP selection algorithm in the draft allows
MAPs to be selected based on their availability. A trivial
way of fairly sharing the load would be to place them
all at the same distance (i.e. advertising the same
field in the MAP option) so they get picked based on
availability only. 

In future people might want to work out more sophisticated
schemes that use weighted inputs based on distance and 
availability. 

So to answer your question, you don't have to use 1 MAP.
You could use several in the same domain; the draft allows
that.

Hesham