[address-policy-wg] Policy Change Request - Allow address allocations for anycast DNS operation

Gert,

 On 15 Jun, Gert Doering wrote:

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 | So based on these comments, I want to suggest the following new 
 | text, to be incorporated into the policy documents:
 | 
 | ------------ snip ------------
 | "Operators providing DNS for a zone served by a number of name servers 
 | such that the total response size when including the list of 
 | nameservers for the zone is close to the UDP packet size limit may 
 | be assigned dedicated network prefixes for the sole purpose of 
 | anycasting name servers, as described on RFC 3258. These shall be: 
 | a /24 IPv4 prefix and/or a /32 IPv6 prefix per anycast server set,
 | which will usually only be one per operator.  The prefixes shall be 
 | tagged as 'ASSIGNED ANYCAST' in the RIPE database and should be 
 | returned to the RIPE NCC if not in use for anycast DNS any longer."
 | ------------ snip ------------

==> While discussing this issue, IPv6 Policy (especially "Initial
    allocation criteria" section ) is being clarified (see current
    discussion on global-v6 at lists.apnic.net). Even though, it is said
    that the intention of this discussion is to clarify the IPv6
    Policy and not to change it, does it make sense to consider adding
    explicitely the criterion above ("DNS ANYCASTING") as a new
    criterion to qualifiy for a /32 ?

Regards,

Mohsen.