[address-policy-wg] 2007-02 New Policy Proposal (Change in IP Assignments for Anycasting DNS Policy)
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Jørgen Hovland
jorgen at hovland.cx
Wed Apr 25 17:21:24 CEST 2007
-----Original Message----- From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:00:52PM +0200, Jørgen Hovland wrote: >> Why does this proposal say it's for DNS only? > >The protocol is changing an existing policy document, which has "DNS only" >in it. It's not creating new policy. I understand. >> I guess other anycast protocols aren't important enough? > >What other anycast protocols are in widespread use today? I assume very few, but I was more curious and I'm not objecting to anything. I am not too fond of policies that are so restricted to certain types of technology. It may prevent innovative and/or competitive new solutions to be deployed to the masses. So sometimes I wonder why IP assignment policies specify layer 7 technology at all. j
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