Brian, > I am soliciting input on a proposal to modify the rules defined > in the current addressing architecture draft with respect to anycast. > There is a proposal in draft-jabley-v6-anycast-clarify-00.txt to change > the following text in the addressing architecture: > > o An anycast address must not be used as the source address of an > IPv6 packet. > > o An anycast address must not be assigned to an IPv6 host, that > is, it may be assigned to an IPv6 router only. > > to > > o An anycast address MAY be used as the source address of an IPv6 > packet. > o An anycast address MAY be assigned to an IPv6 host. > > This change will allow users to operate IPv6 anycast services in the same > manner in which they do today with IPv4 anycast. > > I would like people to chime in before April 15, 2005 with their opinion on > making this change.
I support this change. Based on the discussions, I think that there seems to be well thought-out uses for using an anycast address as a source address, and similar uses of anycast in IPv4. John -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
