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: > > > 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