Hi all, 1) I fully support this policy to move forward. As a matter of fact, AFNIC is preparing an in-house Anycast solution, to be deployed soon for a first group of nodes. Later, we intend to deploy other groups and we will then need to rely on this policy to ask for extra Prefixes. Btw, for our two other running Anycast groups, our choice is a priori to let the Anycast operator ask for address resources they need (a way to mutualize those resources among their customers, thus less address consumption globally). 2) I don't have a strong opinion on using or not "Critical infrastructure expression. Nonetheless, I would prefer we rather avoid that expression in this kind of document (I know it's too late for DNS Root Servers). This might be interpreted by some publicauthorities as an elevation of the TLDs DNS service to a rank of other well-known "Critical infrastructures" like Water or Electricity. I'm not sure we have reached that level of criticity equivalence today, nor am I sure that TLD operators want to spread this perception nowadays. Instead, maybe something less "loaded/exposing" such as "Key/Essential service/infrastructure" (choose a combination as you like) would be more appropriate for this document. Cheers, Mohsen. On 16 Apr, Peter Koch wrote: | On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:00:36PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: | | > i like "critical infrastructre." this is because, while i understand | > that the roots need golden space, and i can almost see that anycasted | > services need micro-allocations, i do not feel that tlds per se are | > critical in the sense that they need golden space. | | that would suggest an external reference to the term and other evaluation | criteria than those proposed. Also, could you elaborate on the difference | between "micro-allocations" and "golden space"? | | > there is a reason the dns maps from names to addresses. use it. | | Sure, we use anycast to support performant and resilient mapping. | | -Peter -- -- //===================================================================\\ | Mohsen Souissi | | AFNIC - Responsable R&D | | Mohsen.Souissi@nic.fr | Tél./Fax : 01 39 30 83 40 / 01 39 30 83 01 | \\===================================================================//