Hi Scott,
Nothing absurd about it. It's been said many times that unicast is a
special case of multicast and your observation is that anycast fits in
the middle of that hierarchy, since anycast is also a special case of
multicast where delivery is to only one receiver.
Tony: I think these are statements about routing, not about
addressing, but I'm not sure. How would what you say here work with
the definition of a locator?
Addressing is routing is addressing. ;-)
I'm not sure I see the connection. Intrinsically, anycast is _not_
about locators. It is about services. If you take Bill's approach (how
about we call it 'anymap'), then obviously, that resolves to a real
(locator, identifier) tuple.
I disagree with you there. Broadcast and Multicast are forms of
non-determinisitic routing. Anycast and unicast are both forms of
deterministic routing.
Is that because the _potential_ recipients are already known?
The actual recipients are already known.
Tony
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