[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 micro allocation or something else?

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at space.net] 
Sent: 11. november 2005 19:02

>So where's the benefit if DENIC sets up something inside MCI's network
>that only MCI customers can see?  And *if* the route is leaked outside,
>what is gained, except people will have to maintain explicit white-lists
>("hey, this /64 is DENIC-anycast, so we permit it, while not permitting
>other /64s")?


I will try to explain more detailed:
A large network provider can have hundreds/thousands of peers. These peers
receive the same /32 prefix. A large network provider has housing facilities
many places in many countries. 
* Put your server in some or all of these housing facilities. 
* Give every server the same IP address. 
* Tell large network provider to use the closest path and make a route to
this IP address where you have your servers (use a routing protocol or
whatever)  
* The peers of large network provider will be routed to the closest DENIC
server in large network providers network.
* If a server is down, the next closest DENIC server will get the traffic.
* There is no single point of failure here. 
* You are using anycast. 
* You have a multiple failover solution.

I hope this was clear enough.


Cheers,

Joergen Hovland