Re: Fwd: Re: note from the iesg plenary

["Brian Haberman" <haberman@nortelnetworks.com>]

Randy,

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > 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>.

Not at all.  I was just pointing out that you are the first person
who has expressed much of an interest in generic, global anycast
support.

> 
> > 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.

So, has this been actually deployed in an operational network?
I recall seeing the slides on experimentation, but have not heard
any results of those experiments nor heard of operational use.  The
aroot mailing list archive seems to be unreachable at this time.

> 
> > 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

Would that be the PolyVision whiteboard product?  There is no info
on their website as to how they utilize IP anycast.

Brian