Re: RFC 3484 Section 6 Rule 9

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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 	This rule should not exist for IPv4 or IPv6.  Longest match
> 	does not make a good sorting critera for destination address
> 	selection.  In fact it has the opposite effect by concentrating
> 	traffic on particular address rather than spreading load.
>
> 	I received a request today asking us to break up DNS RRsets
> 	as a workaround to the rule.    Can we please get a errata
> 	entry for RFC 3484 stating that this rule needs to be ignored.

I doubt that. Errata seems like a wrong place to revisit WG decisions.

(I take no stance on the issue itself.)

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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