The level 1 compliance stuff is only simple in the case of a single
subnet.  As soon as you have routers between the client and the
server, you have to do something to get the packets across the router.
I suppose we could have a discussion about whether magic unicast
addresses (which are really a limited special case of anycast) are
better or worse than multicast, but I doubt that such a discussion
would change any minds.

The place where I do see a real difference is that
draft-ietf-ipv6-dns-discovery-04 tacks new functions (service
discovery and configuration) onto DNS.  DNS was not really designed
for this, and while it's certainly possible (RFC-1925 2.(3)) I think
it's better to use a protocol that was designed for these tasks,
particularly if by doing so one also builds an infrastructure that
makes it easier to solve other problems (eg, configuring NTP).
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