On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:11:40AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> On 17 Mar 2014, at 10:27, manning bill <bmann...@isi.edu> wrote:
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> > alas, our service predates Joe’s marvelous text.
> >
> > “B” provides its services locally to its upstream ISPs.
> > We don’t play routing tricks, impose routing policy, or attempt to
> > influence prefix announcement.
>
> In the taxonomy I just shared, that makes the origin nodes of B all "global
> nodes".
>
> To clarify though, I certainly wasn't trying to suggest that the things I
> described were new or original when I was writing in 2003. Anycast had
> already been in use for quite some time by a variety of people at that time.
>
> It's specifically the terms "local" and "global" in a DNS anycast context
> that I was apologising for :-)
>
>
> Joe
No apology needed. I was clarifying why "B" is listed as a local node.
That it doesn't fit you taxonomy is fine - but it does need an
explaination.
/bill
