FWIW, as the Anycast topic came up again recently in IETF mailing list,
I made a comment which I can share also on this list. Disclaimer: not
everybody seems to agree with my statement.
Quoting myself as of Nov. 2, 2025:
I was not familiar with the processes within IETF when I had the
Anycast Community marking idea a few years ago. So I didn’t know
how to push it.
Accidentally during RIPE84 in Berlin I happened to discuss the idea
with Maximilian, who volunteered to write the draft and submit it.
I suppose I was a bit naive then.
I nevertheless learned some aspects about IETF politics meanwhile.
Unless an idea is supported by «important» people, nothing will
happen. That is why the draft has silently stalled.
It didn’t seem reasonable to invest more time and effort, because
I’m too busy with other things more important (choose your battles
wisely) and, on the other hand, those «important names» are missing
as co-authors on the paper anyway. I simply and naively didn’t care
about the required ego feeding which would make things happen.
Nevermind. If anyone wants to rewrite the draft and push it
forward, I‘m happy to observe the hopefully successful outcome one
day.
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Am 19.11.25 um 09:58 schrieb Randy Bush:
i thought i remembered discussion of a community tag for anycast
prefixes. anyone have specific reference?
BGP community? There is
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-anycast-community/
... but that seems to have died.
thanks, gert
wonder why it died. seem useful and could be simple. oh, in the
ietf, that latter could be a problem.
randy
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