Hi all,

Nevil Brownlee is graciously considering this document for the 
independent-submission stream:

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jabley-dnsop-anycast-mapping-02

It's an informational document that describes the various mechanisms provided 
at L-Root to identify what anycast node you see from your special place in the 
network. The goals are (a) publication of details about a particular Internet 
infrastructure service (L-Root), and (b) providing a worked example that might 
serve as useful input to design exercises carried out by other people with 
anycast DNS infrastructure.

Nevil needs some additional reviews before he can make progress. There's only 
about 8 pages of text here (many of which are filled with example output from 
dig, etc). If you have a spare 10 minutes to be able to give your impressions, 
it would be appreciated.

Please send reviews to Nevil at [email protected], ideally cc'ing me so I 
can know when to stop asking people for reviews. :-)


Joe

>        A Summary of Various Mechanisms Deployed at L-Root for the
>                     Identification of Anycast Nodes
>                  draft-jabley-dnsop-anycast-mapping-02
> 
> 
> Abstract
> 
>    Anycast is a deployment technique commonly employed for
>    authoritative-only servers in the Domain Name System (DNS).  L-Root,
>    one of the thirteen root servers, is deployed in this fashion.
> 
>    Various techniques have been used to map deployed anycast
>    infrastructure externally, i.e. without reference to inside knowledge
>    about where and how such infrastructure has been deployed.
>    Motivations for performing such measurement exercises include
>    operational troubleshooting and infrastructure risk assessment.  In
>    the specific case of L-Root, the ability to measure and map anycast
>    infrastructure using the techniques mentioned in this document is
>    provided for reasons of operational transparency.
> 
>    This document describes all facilities deployed at L-Root to
>    facilitate mapping of its infrastructure and serves as documentation
>    for L-Root as a measurable service.
> 
> 
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