Re: Generic anycast addresses...

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:48:15PM +0200, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Addresses in ULA space are expected to be used in a certain way, and scoped (well-known) anycast addresses in another. Let's keep things simple and use ULA space for ULA and a different (and more easily recognisable) prefix for anycast.

No, thats not a real justification. I could equally say that unicast
addresses are expected to be used in a certain way an anycast addresses
in another.

I also don't see how scoping changes anything wrt. whether or not
ULA could be used.

> > Of course, you want to make sure that your scheme still
> > works when multiple instances of that application/side do interconnect,
> > but th way i understand what you want to do, that would be the case.
> > 
> > I am not saying this is the best way, i am just saying that i hven't
> > seen enough evidence to try to create more RIR work.
> 
> IMHO there should be well-known anycast addresses managed by IETF/IANA/etc. I agree that this is something that doesn't belong with the RIRs.

Well. i made my points why i think this is not a good solution.

Cheers
    Toerless

> Cheers,
> Sander
> 

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