A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. BCP 169 RFC 6382 Title: Unique Origin Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) per Node for Globally Anycasted Services Author: D. McPherson, R. Donnelly, F. Scalzo Status: Best Current Practice Stream: IETF Date: October 2011 Mailbox: dmcpherson@verisign.com, rdonnelly@verisign.com, fscalzo@verisign.com Pages: 10 Characters: 25224 See Also: BCP0169 I-D Tag: draft-ietf-grow-unique-origin-as-01.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6382.txt This document makes recommendations regarding the use of unique origin autonomous system numbers (ASNs) per node for globally anycasted critical infrastructure services in order to provide routing system discriminators for a given anycasted prefix. Network management and monitoring techniques, or other operational mechanisms, may employ this new discriminator in whatever manner best accommodates their operating environment. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Global Routing Operations Working Group of the IETF. BCP: This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce