>>>>> "bh" == Brad Huntting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 6to4 gateways would advertise to the their IPv4 peers that they have
> a route for "a.b.c.d".  And for their IPv6 peers (the 6bone) they
> can advertise a route for 2002::/16.

> Does anyone see a problem with this?  I dont suppose there's already
> a block of IPv4 address space set aside for anycast?

I think nobody has really been using IPv4 anycast on a global
(inter-provider) scale.  The IETF dnsop working group is conducting an
experiment on global anycast, with the possible application of name
servers for important zones such as the root, see
draft-ietf-dnsop-ohta-shared-root-server-00.txt
(http://www.switch.ch/lan/dns/references.html#aroot for a pointer).

Each new anycast address means additional routing entries in the
default-free zone.  Personally I'm not sure whether the ability to
have a standard IPv4 address for the 6to4/6bone gateways is enough to
justify this (the current Web page is a good alternative).  One might
be tempted by the idea that making global IPv4 routing more difficult
would be a good thing to promote the deployment of IPv6, but this
could also backfire.

Regards,
-- 
Simon.

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