[address-policy-wg] 2008-05 New Draft Documents Published (Anycasting Assignments for TLDs and Tier 0/1 ENUM)

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:00:36PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:

> i like "critical infrastructre."  this is because, while i understand
> that the roots need golden space, and i can almost see that anycasted
> services need micro-allocations, i do not feel that tlds per se are
> critical in the sense that they need golden space.

that would suggest an external reference to the term and other evaluation
criteria than those proposed.  Also, could you elaborate on the difference
between "micro-allocations" and "golden space"?

> there is a reason the dns maps from names to addresses.  use it.

Sure, we use anycast to support performant and resilient mapping.

-Peter