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

On 24-mrt-05, at 14:05, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> I don't see from where you take the right to decide for a TLD registry
> how they should run their operations.

The same place they find the right to take up space in my routing table.

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

Then you're running the wrong DNS software. A good resolving server 
should keep track of the TTLs towards different nameservers for a zone 
and try to talk to the one with the lowest TTL first most of the time.

 From your other message:

> There is, however, a difference between routing table pollution (mostly
> because of missing or failing aggregation) and small prefixes in the
> routing table due to "special" PI service blocks. One should not mix
> this.

It's natural to look at these differently, but the end result is 
invariably the same: more CPU and memory usage in the routers.