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

On 24 Mar, 2005, at 15:36, Randy Bush wrote:

> mornin' joao,
>
>>>> OK, so I guess my point altogether is that I dislike special-ness.
>>>> There seems to be agreement that DNS anycasting is here to stay
>>> and it's special enough to require special policy.  i.e. one does
>>> not have to like consistency to dislike specialness.
>> one tries to limit it to the minimum.
>
> so, in this case, would that be
>   o only tlds can get this specialness
>   o only dns services can get this specialness
>   o any anycasting services can get this specialness
>   o any services which can justify address space get the space
>     (which is what we theoretically have today)?
>

Dunno, you will have to ask the wg. What is your take on it?

On a separate issue, your 3rd bullet point: are there any more results 
from your study on the routing of anycasted services? Some people are 
telling they are OK with using anycast for TCP and I am certainly 
curious.

Joao