% Anycast may even have preceded the creation of ICANN - perhaps an IETF % source or one of the root server operators can say when the first ANYCAST % deployments were done. Not an IETF source. In discussions on the earliest anycast instance, there was general agreement that "M" was anycast from the time it moved from LA to Tokyo, roughly 1997. --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).