Subject: RE: Anycast Addresses being used for Nodes not just Routers

From: "Bound, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:00:38 -0400

I am ok with this and agree your text addresses it.  compaq servers ship standard with routing daemons for many reasons (e.g. clusters, gateways, proprietary stuff).

this is a no brainer for hosts.

we should revive your draft and push it harder with the working group again.
I know its a pain.

/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:47 PM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Anycast Addresses being used for Nodes not just Routers 
> 
> 
> >What do we think we need to do to get the requirement that only
> >Routers can have anycast addresses changed to "nodes".
> 
> 	see section 3.1 of 
> draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-anycast-analysis-00.txt.
> 	- it is easy and possible without any protocol 
> development if you are
> 	  okay with running routing daemon on anycast hosts.
> 	- if not, progress anycast listener discovery document. 
>  in this case
> 	  the issue is time to market (routers have to be upgraded to
> 	  support it).
> 
> 	(it's in IESG queue for more than 6 months, so i-d is 
> marked expired -
> 	but i think it okay)
> 
> itojun
> 

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