FYI. Regards, Thomas Trede -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht----- Von: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> An: "IETF-Announce:;;;;@ns.cnri.reston.va.us;"@Eng.Sun.COM;;; <"IETF-Announce:;;;;@ns.cnri.reston.va.us;"@Eng.Sun.COM;;;> Cc: RFC Editor <rfc-editor@isi.edu>; Internet Architecture Board <iab@isi.edu>; ipng@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM <ipng@sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM> Datum: Dienstag, 2. Februar 1999 20:04 Betreff: (IPng 7148) Protocol Action: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses to Proposed Standard

The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses' <draft-ietf-ipngwg-resv-anycast-02.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jeffrey Burgan and Thomas Narten.

Technical Summary

The IP Version 6 addressing architecture defines an "anycast" address as an IPv6 address that is assigned to one or more network interfaces (typically belonging to different nodes), with the property that a packet sent to an anycast address is routed to the "nearest" interface having that address, according to the routing protocols' measure of distance. This document defines a set of reserved anycast addresses within each subnet prefix, and lists the initial allocation of these reserved subnet anycast addresses.

Working Group Summary

There was strong WG support for this document. Other documents in the pipeline (e.g., Mobile IP for IPv6) make use of anycast addresses.

Protocol Quality

This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Thomas Narten.

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