[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum) wrote:

> We're talking about TLDs here, not the root. There are very few TLDs 
> that even use the full 13 or so addresses that are possible without 
> using EDNS0. Country code TLDs have existed for 20 years without 
> trouble without anycast, so I really don't see why this would be 
> necessary now, especially as the shorter RTTs that are possible with 
> anycasting are extremely unlikely to make a noticeable real-world 
> difference.

I don't see from where you take the right to decide for a TLD registry
how they should run their operations. There are a lot of reasons for
doing one or the other, but I cannot see where you come in.

Apart from that, I can tell you that these shorter RTTs make a hell
of a difference.

Elmar.

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