At 12:54 PM 4/29/2002 -0700, Steve Deering wrote:
>At 2:27 PM -0400 4/29/02, Rob Austein wrote:
> >I have to admit that I also find it kind of amusing that this of all
> >WGs seems to be proposing to move service location functionality out
> >of the edge systems and into the network core.
>
>No more so than the use of DHCP relays does.  We're talking about the
>IGP within a site, and taking advantage of what it already can do.

So, the DNS Discovery proposals do no better than DHCP in the
area of distributing function out to the edge and away from
the network core?


>(Now that I mention it, perhaps DHCP relays ought also to be replaced
>by the use of a well-known, site-local anycast address.)
>
>Steve
>
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