[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 micro allocation or something else?

> That's the point.  DENIC isn't doing this for themselves.  They do this
> for *you* (and for me, and even for Randy).

The Red Cross Society is also doing it for *you* and for
me and even for Randy. But that doesn't make their network special.

If DENIC really wants to build a special network then they should
share that special network with other TLD operators. Then I would
be happy to support their requests for IP addresses. But if they
are not going to share their network then there is nothing special
and they must buy service on the open market.

I really do want DENIC to build their anycast network. But I want
them to share it so that all the other important TLDs don't have to
build their own separate networks all doing the same thing as DENIC.
In fact, now that DENIC is selling resilient domain name hosting
around the world, I would be interested in having them host my 
second level domains as well.

> So putting up the anycast servers somewhere where half of the internet
> might not see them is not useful.  For maximum resiliency (against
> DoS and outages), one wants to spread the anycast servers over as many
> different (!) networks as possible.  And this cannot be done without
> a dedicated prefix for it.

I agree with you Gert but this is such a good idea that every TLD will
want to do the same. You need to either outsource this to a company
that specializes in anycast hosting or you need to separate DENIC into
a hosting network business and the .DE name registry business.

--Michael Dillon