I agree.  Lets begin to work on getting a SHOULD that would fix it completely.

I will follow your lead in the WG so lets do it ............

/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:28 AM
> To: Bound, Jim
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Anycast Addresses being used for Nodes not just Routers
> 
> 
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Bound, Jim wrote:
> > What do we think we need to do to get the requirement that 
> only Routers
> > can have anycast addresses changed to "nodes".
> > 
> > IETF Work draft-yanjun-lbam-ipv6-00.txt is a good example 
> of the use of
> > anycast for non-router systems that are very important for 
> the Internet
> > and IPv6.
> 
> I've been trying to push the changing of this:
> 
>       o An anycast address must not be assigned to an IPv6 host, that
>         is, it may be assigned to an IPv6 router only.
> 
> in addr-arch-v3-07 to change 'must' to a 'should' for some 
> time now, with 
> not much progress.
> 
> I think this is one item that should be changed before 
> addr-arch is done 
> with in the IESG and locked for a few years.
> 
> -- 
> Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
> Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
> Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
> 
> 

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