[address-policy-wg] 2007-02 New Policy Proposal (Change in IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS Policy)

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From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:00:52PM +0200, Jørgen Hovland wrote:
>> Why does this proposal say it's for DNS only? 
>
>The protocol is changing an existing policy document, which has "DNS only"
>in it.  It's not creating new policy.

I understand.

>> I guess other anycast protocols aren't important enough?
>
>What other anycast protocols are in widespread use today?

I assume very few, but I was more curious and I'm not objecting to anything. I am not too fond of policies that are so restricted to certain types of technology. It may prevent innovative and/or competitive new solutions to be deployed to the masses. So sometimes I wonder why IP assignment policies specify layer 7 technology at all.

j