Hi Jorge,

<snip>
Agreed, any technology can use any cast SID.
[jorge] if you want to specify an anycast SID solution for EVPN as an 
alternative to aliasing, since it may have its merits, I’ll be glad to 
investigate it with you and help. However data plane-learning sounds a step 
back to me.
<end of snip>

I looked at this long time ago and it had some issues. For example, if you pass 
the anycast ID in underlay, then the load balancing is dictated by your 
underlay topology instead of the actual link BW of MCLAG. If you try to get 
fancier and distribute link bw info in the underlay (IGP), then you are 
burdening the underly protocol with overlay info.  And finally if you 
distribute it in the overlay (e.g., BGP), it becomes very similar to what we do 
currently.

BTW, Aliasing feature in EVPN is not mandatory but rather optional as you know.

Cheers,
Ali



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