On Jul 4, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Karl Auer wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 13:30 +0200, Mark Townsley wrote:
>> 6rd makes use of the v6 subnet router anycast
>> [...]
>> Also, at the last IETF meeting the DHC WG took on an effort to
>> describe the use of subnet router anycast here:
>> 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-guo-softwire-6rd-ipv6-config-02
> 
> On an admittedly rapid read through those texts (RFC3315, RFC5969, the
> above draft) all references to subnet router anycast addresses were
> inside "SHOULD" clauses. Which implies that there are alternative
> methods of achieving those aims?

In this case, the alternative is to simply not have the troubleshooting feature.

- Mark

> 
> One alternative would be to make the subnet router anycast address
> well-known rather than reserved. Then it could be used in environments
> that need it, and would not interfere in environments that do not.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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