Anycast support in draft-ietf-ipv6-addr-arch-v4-02.txt

[Brian Haberman <brian at innovationslab.net>]

All,
     I am soliciting input on a proposal to modify the rules defined
in the current addressing architecture draft with respect to anycast.
There is a proposal in draft-jabley-v6-anycast-clarify-00.txt to change
the following text in the addressing architecture:

      o An anycast address must not be used as the source address of an
         IPv6 packet.

      o An anycast address must not be assigned to an IPv6 host, that
         is, it may be assigned to an IPv6 router only.

to

   o  An anycast address MAY be used as the source address of an IPv6
       packet.
   o  An anycast address MAY be assigned to an IPv6 host.

This change will allow users to operate IPv6 anycast services in the 
same
manner in which they do today with IPv4 anycast.

I would like people to chime in before April 15, 2005 with their 
opinion on
making this change.

It should be noted that the addressing architecture is currently in 
IETF Last
Call.

Regards,
Brian

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