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a mechanism is in place for mapping a unicast address to the closest
member of the anycast group.
Further work with anycast infrastructure and applications will likely con-
tinue to grow, and the interested reader is urged to keep tabs on anycast
by reading the latest Internet-Drafts and RFCs as they are published.
11.7 Summary
This chapter provided an overview to the history, use, and problems
related to the use of IPv6 anycast. Although widespread use of anycast
in the global Internet is unlikely ever to happen, chances are good that
anycast will eventually become a useful mechanism within organizations
and service providers ...