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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Hi Heather,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
<span class=gmailquote>From: <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>heather skanks</span></b>
<</span></span><span class=gmailquote><a
href="mailto:heather.skanks@gmail.com"><span lang=EN-GB>
heather.skanks@gmail.com</span></a></span></font><span class=gmailquote><span
lang=EN-GB>></span></span><span lang=EN-GB><br>
<span class=gmailquote>Date: May 9, 2007 8:48 AM</span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2007-02 New Policy
Proposal (Change in IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS Policy)</span><br>
<span class=gmailquote>To: Gert Doering <</span></span><span
class=gmailquote><a href="mailto:gert@space.net"><span lang=EN-GB>
gert@space.net</span></a></span><span class=gmailquote><span lang=EN-GB>></span></span><span
lang=EN-GB><br>
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<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>> </span></font>Why the
assumptaion that anycast requires PI space in the first place?<br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I agree, and I already
mentioned this 2 years ago:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2005/msg01079.html">http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2005/msg01079.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The 8 ip-address limit
only limits actual locations you can place your nameservers at. So 8
locations/different ISPs is with todays standard more than enough?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>At those 8 locations you
can at each configure 80 network load balancing servers causing a total
capacity of <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>~13 million queries per second</span></b>
with old hardware and bad dns software.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>There is no such thing as “critical
internet infrastructure”. The internet is never stronger than its weakest
link. If that is ccTLD nameservers... okay.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>(This whole anycast problem only
concerns nameservers with very few but extremely large zones. The others can
just spread them into different nameservers)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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