>My concern with the first option is that it requires new functionality
>on the host joining an anycast group, namely running a routing protocol.
it is not new at all. hosts have been running routing protocol daemons
for a long time (sometimes it was only listening, like "routed -q").
>Generally, hosts already support MLD/IGMP in order to join multicast
>groups, so why require them to run a routing protocol?
at this moment no client implementation issues MLD join for
anycast address, so it is a large change to make.
itojun
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