Re: ipv6 anycast

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Randy Bush wrote:
> > So practically there's only a single anycast concept now in IPv6 as
> > well.
>
> then explain why there is reservation for an anycast address on a subnet
> link?

On a link which typically includes 2^64 addresses, it probably doesn't 
hurt to reserve some if someone or a protocol would like to use it for 
anycast purposes (in the similar fashion it's used today with v4, just 
without requiring manual assignment).

But as I mentioned on 6man list in the context of /127 and RFC3627, I 
wouldn't personally object to obsoleting RFC2526.

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