Re: IPv6 Formal Anycast Addresses and Functional Anycast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-smith-6man-form-func-anycast-addresses-01.txt)

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sun, 03 November 2019 23:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv6 Formal Anycast Addresses and Functional Anycast Addresses (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-smith-6man-form-func-anycast-addresses-01.txt)
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Mark Smith wrote on 03/11/2019 21:51:
> All of this suggests to me that you haven't read any of the draft at 
> all. Much if not all of this is covered.

Mark,

I read the draft.  It doesn't describe characteristics which couldn't be 
handled using unicast address ranges.  Scope can be handled on an ad-hoc 
basis where necessary.  Well-known addresses have been debated endlessly 
over the years without reaching any consensus about their advisability. 
The examples you provide (NTP, DNS) are already routinely provided by 
anycast using global unicast addresses, and the general consensus is 
that if you want devices to pick up this information, there are better 
ways to do this than by using well-known addresses, e.g. dhcp, DNS - for 
NTP, orchestration, etc.  Even then, all the examples you provide do not 
depend on a new addressing block due to protocol differences.

Nick