Sounds eminently logical. I think it makes sense to remove the restriction
in draft-ietf-ipv6-addr-arch but spend some time discussing the finer points
in more depth rather than try to craft some text on the fly to substitute.
GROW might be the right place to do so (I see there's a draft about anycast
there) but I do note that the GROW charter does not specifically mention
anycast, and some of the issues discussed in this thread may involve more
IGP rather than EGP operations, which seems to be GROW's focus.
jak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Austein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fred Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Margaret Wasserman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "IPv6 WG"
<ipv6@ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Anycast support in draft-ietf-ipv6-addr-arch-v4-02.txt
> At Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:50:52 -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
> >
> > proposed text...
>
> While I appreciate the effort that Fred put into crafting text, I'd
> prefer Brian's original proposal. The only parts of this set of
> anycast issues that's specific to IPv6 are the restrictions that the
> IPv6 address architecture doc imposes on use of anycast in IPv6. The
> rest of the issues are IP-version-independent, and are already under
> consideration in another WG which has the relevant routing expertise.
> So I think the best thing for the IPv6 WG per se to do would be to
> clear up the old IPv6-specific restrictions, then bow out gracefully.
>
> If folks from the IPv6 WG want to wander over to GROW and chat about
> the issues Fred's proposed text attempts to document, that sounds like
> a fine and useful thing, and I'm sure that the folks over in GROW
> would be happy to get additional eyes reviewing their work, but to me
> that looks like a separate activity in a separate WG and does not need
> to be tightly coupled to the IPv6 address architecture doc.
>
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