Re: Generic anycast addresses...

Yepp. we brainstormed reviving the definition for that bit when doing ACP
in ANIMA, but felt it would be too much work.

I would have loved if some of the informal sites on the internet where
you could list your ULA prefix use would still be there, but they all
seemed to have died ;-(

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:48:19PM -0700, Bob Hinden wrote:
> Ted,
> 
> > On May 29, 2019, at 5:41 PM, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Indeed, the propagation pattern of a ULA would work nicely for this, but there???s no way to do this automatically.   I might have (and indeed unfortunately it???s common to have) more than one ULA on a constrained network.   How do I pick?   :)
> > 
> > So what I really want is indeed something that is treated like a ULA, but that can be a constant, and not something that has to be derived.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Bob
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