Re: national security

% 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
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