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

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 04 November 2019 18:38 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 <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
    > One way to increase the relative advantage of IPv6 over IPv4 is to
    > provide useful capabilities in IPv6 that are not, cannot be provided
    > or cannot be provided easily in IPv4. I assume you support increased
    > IPv6 adoption since you're here.

    > A formal IPv6 anycast address class, providing improvements over
    > IPv4's and IPv6's informal anycast addresses, can increase the
    > relative advantage of IPv6.

+1

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