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Re: IPv6 is being deployed !

2004-11-08 06:57:11


"6.4.3.     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."

So the problem is still there. (Same text is also still present at IANA and the other RIRs.)

the "problem" is that folks seem to have a different take on the word FACILITATE in the above section. facilitate != mandate.... e.g. one could expect that delegations made from the RIRs -when this policy was/is in force- to be on /32 alignments. for delegations made under different regimes, the delegation sizes may be different... like the /35s that were popular from the RIR community before the /32 agreement was
        reached.  Or the /48s  that predated the /35s...

That's inconsistent with the published policy.

No. See above.

When there is an inconsistency, you can't fix it by adding more data. You need to remove/change something. The fact that the information necessary to do route filtering is present in 5 locations and policies are created in 4 places doesn't help.

it is important to remember that neither the IETF nor the RIR can manage/conserve the entries in anyones routing/forwarding tables. The IETF (imho) should confine itself to protocol work, The RIRs should confine themselves to being wise stewards of the addressing resources, and the ISPs need to worry about the operational coordination of routing... such is not the perview of either the IETF, the IANA task,
        or the RIRs.   ....

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