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Re: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-09.txt>

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-4@u-1.phicoh.com> Thu, 06 July 2017 21:24 UTC

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In your letter dated Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:43:30 +1200 you wrote:
>On 07/07/2017 07:12, Philip Homburg wrote:
>...
>> redefine anycast to be within a single subnet
>
>What does that mean? I can't attach any meaning to those words.

It should be obvious that Section 2.5 really tries to define 2 separate
concepts.

If other people find those sections readable, then fine with me.

To me this reads like a piece of code from the 90s, that has seen 2 decades
of hacking. Techincally it does the right thing, but only an expert
recognizes all the magic hidden inside.

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