Brian Haberman wrote:
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.
If we do this, shouldn't we also list the issues one needs to cope with?
For instance, when anycast is used as a source address, ICMP errors might no longer be delivered to the sender (they might be delivered to some other host that uses the same anycast address). This means that ICMP path mtu discovery might not work. As a result, I think it would make sense to say that when an anycast address is used as source address, the sender SHOULD limit the IPv6 packets to 1280 bytes.
It might also make sense to note that the lack of ICMP errors means that debugging tools like ping and traceroute might not work when an anycast address is used as source address.
Erik
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