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

[Joe Abley <jabley at isc.org>]

On 14 Apr 2005, at 13:33, Bob Hinden wrote:

> The proposal is then to remove the following text from the end of 
> Section 2.6 the document:
>
>    There is little experience with widespread, arbitrary use of 
> Internet
>    anycast addresses, and some known complications and hazards when
>    using them in their full generality [ANYCST].  Until more experience
>    has been gained and solutions are specified, the following
>    restrictions are imposed on IPv6 anycast addresses:
>
>       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.
>
> This would mean we would not try to describe the general issues with 
> anycast usage in the document.  I agree this makes sense because the 
> issues are not specific to IPv6, there is now a body of experience 
> with anycast usage, and the GROW working group is working in this 
> area.
>
> Is everyone else OK with this proposed change?

For the record, I am OK with this change (it's what I proposed to the 
IESG when we kicked off this thread, so I presume that's obvious, but 
just to be clear).


Joe


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