Re: Generic anycast addresses...

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:59:04AM +1000, Mark Smith wrote:
> Having deployed anycast DNS service in the past, being a reviewer of
> RFC 7094, and having thought about this sort of problem space for a
> while, I came to the conclusion that there should be a formal class of
> IPv6 anycast addresses that include fine grained scopes. A separate
> class of addresses is also what the authors of  RFC 1546 suggested as
> an option for anycast support.
> 
> "IPv6 Formal Anycast Addresses and Functional Anycast Addresses"
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-6man-form-func-anycast-addresses-00

Anycast is not the issue. Scoping unicast is the issue. When you manage
to work that out, you can get scoped anycast for free. But scoped
unicast failed and was removed, except for ULA AFAIK. Go figure.

I think the pragmatic way is to actually continue to build successful
experiments with the existing ULA definitions we have.

> Regards,
> Mark.
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