grow: anycast ops draft

[Joe Abley <[e-mail]>]

Kurtis Lindqvist and I squeezed this draft through before the cut-off:

   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kurtis-anycast-bcp-00.txt

> Abstract
>
>    As the Internet has grown, many services with high availability
>    requirements have emerged.  The requirements of these services have
>    increased the demands on the reliability of the infrastructure on
>    which those services rely.
>
>    Many techniques have been employed to increase the availability of
>    services deployed on the Internet.  This document presents
>    operational experience of wide-scale service distribution using
>    anycast, and proposes a series of recommendations for others using
>    this approach.

Anycast distribution of services (the practice of injecting 
reachability information for an address into a routing system in 
multiple places, from autonomous nodes) is not at all a new idea; 
however, there are an increasing number of people using anycast 
approaches to distribute high-profile services, and few published 
guidelines for doing so. The aim of this document is to provide some 
guidelines.

There are many, many people with experience deploying anycast services 
whose thoughts and opinions are not in that -00 draft. Hopefully some 
of them are on this list, and they can help us make the draft better.

We have a brief slot in the grow meeting next Tuesday to introduce this 
draft, and we plan to propose that it becomes a working group document. 
If people on this list have a chance to review the draft before then, 
that would be great.


Joe

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