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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 30 May 2019 00:56 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: Generic anycast addresses...
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 17:56:22 -0700
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On May 29, 2019, at 5:48 PM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
> We when ULAs were being developed, there was a notion of centrally assigned ULAs.  It’s not currently defined, but that’s was the original intent for having the “L” bit in the prefix.  See RFC4193.

Hm.   I had thought about that, but assumed there was some reason why we couldn’t do it.   But now that you mention it, since there is currently no authority other than IANA to assign these prefixes, we could in principle simply have IANA assign one of them to use for anycast addresses that anycast within the local administrative domain?

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