[address-policy-wg] Re: Assignments for Critical Infrastruction

Thu Oct 30 19:50:13 CET 2008

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:36:48PM +0100,
 Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> wrote 
 a message of 16 lines which said:

> And BGP does not optimize for RTT, like some resolvers do, so too
> much anycast will slow things down a bit.

Isn't it a classical case of security/performance trade-off? After the
attack on the root name servers on february 2007, most name servers
operators are ready to worsen a bit the latency, in order to get more
resilience.

And, anyway, we are drifting. The issue is not whether name servers
operators MUST use anycast-with-several-prefixes but if they CAN do it
with the current policy (answer: no, because it is limited to one
prefix).