Re: Fwd: Re: note from the iesg plenary

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> First, no one that I have talked to on the subject of anycast feels
> that global anycast is all that useful.

can't help the limits of your circle of friends, but since you say "no one"
and i am disagreeing, the problem may be on the receiving, not the sending,
end <grin>.

> someone can't offer a global anycast-based service, as long as
> the servers are all based out of that network's prefix so that the
> anycast address gets aggregated in the global routing table.

you may want to look at the aroot experiments.

> Second, can you describe the current v4 use of anycast where anycast
> servers are using globally routable anycast addresses from outside
> their administrative domains?

ibid

randy