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pseudo-anycast to distribute servers for load-balancing and responding
to high-demand global applications. That did not end the interest in defin-
ing an anycast service in IPv6, but it also took away one of the more obvious
problems to which anycast offered a potential solution. RFC 2373 states the
following.
One expected use of anycast addresses is to identify the set of
routers belonging to an organization providing Internet service. Such
addresses could be used as intermediate addresses in an IPv6 Routing
Header, to cause a packet to be delivered via a particular service
provider or sequence of service providers.
Some