[address-policy-wg] PI for Not-DNS Anycast.

On 12 Jun 2007, at 22:58, Andy Davidson wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Can I get the community's thoughts on this, please ..
>
> I think we have a well defined policy on what to do when someone  
> needs some PI in order to run an Anycasted DNS service.  We set out  
> a family of requirements based on geographic diversity, for  
> instance, that clearly states what should be in place when a  
> request for PI for DNS use is made.
>
> What if a company wants to try to deploy an anycasted production  
> service for something which is not DNS ?  It could be a proprietary  
> protocol, or something standard like http.  Is the community view  
> that they should just deaggregate some of their PA - which I don't  
> like the sound of - or apply for PI in the normal way, and pretend  
> anycast isn't necessarily involved ?

They could also state their case in this wg. Sounds far more reasonable.

Joao Damas