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Re: Generic anycast addresses...

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sun, 02 June 2019 13:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: Generic anycast addresses...
To: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
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Toerless Eckert wrote on 02/06/2019 14:03:
> IMHO, it would be lovely to primarily think of standardizing whats
> IMHO been most missing piece for more proliferation of anycast, and
> thats an appropriate prototol for anycast members to signal their membership.

as an observation, this would introduce host-level state into the 
network, which has scalability consequences.

Nick

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