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Re: IPv6 is being deployed !

2004-11-08 03:36:07
On 6-nov-04, at 4:46, Joe Abley wrote:

Also remember that in IPv6 only /32 are announced, so you can't just compare
it one to one.

Apologies for the injection of operational content,

You've been on NANOG too long.  :-)

but if anybody here is only accepting /32s on their v6 borders, their import policies are broken.

What's broken is that they believe the IANA and RIRs when they say:

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.

http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ipv6-allocation-policy-26jun02

(See http://www.bgpexpert.com/archive2003q4.php for the full rant.)

There are legitimate prefixes being announced which are both shorter and longer than 32 bits (several high-profile nameservers fit into the latter category).

That's inconsistent with the published policy. Either reality or the policy documents have to be changed. When is the I* community going to deploy some quality control???


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