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. -- Fredy Künzler

Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd. Technoparkstrasse 5 CH-8406 Winterthur https://www.init7.net/ Am 19.11.25 um 09:58 schrieb Randy Bush:

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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 -----