Re: Response to the Appeal by JFC Morfin dated 2006-02-17 - 2006-05-17.

[Joe Abley <jabley at ca.afilias.info>]

On 12-Jul-2006, at 15:45, Dean Anderson wrote:

> > I make no claims that anycast is definitively safe for protocols and
> > services which don't involve trivial, stateless transactions.
>
> Really?  That's a big change.

Really? There has been text to that effect in the draft since -00.

> > For example, there are people using anycast to distribute services
> > using very long-held sessions (e.g. internet radio, HTTP) with great
> > success, and to ignore their experience and success would be idiotic
> > and arbitrary.
>
> There are no such http services using stateful anycast (though this is
> the first I've heard of internet radio being anycast---I'd have to
> question what protocol he means. I think RTP streams may be stateless,
> but I'm not certain).  The http protocol is definitely stateful,
> however.

http://www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/ 
54FCC3B9D0B8BB96CC25702F00740446
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0606/levine.html

etc, etc. I think I've said enough in this thread, now; if there are  
innocent bystanders who would like more clarification of these issues  
they are more than welcome to drop me a note directly.


Joe


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