We've made a proposal in the latest rev of the DHCPv6 draft to use a 
well-known, site-local anycast address.

- Ralph

At 12:54 PM 4/29/2002 -0700, Steve Deering wrote:
>At 2:27 PM -0400 4/29/02, Rob Austein wrote:
> >I have to admit that I also find it kind of amusing that this of all
> >WGs seems to be proposing to move service location functionality out
> >of the edge systems and into the network core.
>
>No more so than the use of DHCP relays does.  We're talking about the
>IGP within a site, and taking advantage of what it already can do.
>
>(Now that I mention it, perhaps DHCP relays ought also to be replaced
>by the use of a well-known, site-local anycast address.)
>
>Steve
>
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