On 8-dec-03, at 21:00, Paul Vixie wrote:
for example, bill says above that "/35 routes
are being discouraged" and that's probably true but "by whom?" and
"where?"
It is generally understood in the routing community that some kind of
prefix length filtering is desirable and/or necessary. So the question
becomes: on which bit boundary do we filter? This question seems to be
answered by:
http://lacnic.net/en/chapter-4.html
http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/docs/ipv6-address-policy
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-policies.html
http://www.arin.net/policy/ipv6_policy.html
http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ipv6-allocation-policy-26jun02
(All the same document, slightly different versions.) It says:
"4.3. Minimum Allocation
RIRs will apply a minimum size for IPv6 allocations, to facilitate
prefix-based filtering.
The minimum allocation size for IPv6 address space is /32."
I don't see how giving out micro allocations can possibly be compatible
with this policy.