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

Sorry meant to send this to the list!

--Heather

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From: heather skanks <heather.skanks at gmail.com>
Date: May 9, 2007 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-02 New Policy Proposal (Change in IP
Assignments for Anycasting DNS Policy)
To: Gert Doering <gert at space.net>

Why the assumptaion that anycast requires PI space in the first place?

I can understand why it might be preferred that DNS operators have PI space,
regardless of whether they anycast.  They don't need a lot of space to run
the service, and without a policy to allow them to get PI, they would be
dependent on space from a provider.  But, I think their need for PI has more
to do with them being critical infrastructure, rather than the fact that
they anycast.  The fact that they don't need a lot of space to run the
service and wouldn't otherwise qualify for PI, means that there needs to be
a special policy for them.


That said, the change from
"If the name server set of a ccTLD or a gTLD "
to:
"If the name server set of an organisation running DNS"
The rest of the policy goes on to make the requirement that they have 8 or
more IP addresses for the services (pre anycasting)
and demonstration of the need to do anycasting.

The new text seems to change the policy to hinge more on the need to anycast
as justification for this space, rather than the service being critical
infrastructure.

 I don't know of anything inherent in anycast technology that would require
provider independent space.

--Heather


On 4/25/07, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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 guess other anycast protocols aren't important enough?
>
> What other anycast protocols are in widespread use today?
>
> Gert Doering
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