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Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri May 16 15:23:16 2008

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 15:22:54 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <482DBFDC.2020303@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

<apply hip waders>
Please keep the political rhetoric off-list, thanks.
</apply hip waders>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> As everybody is a big fan of securing their networks against foreign
> attacks, be aware that the US DoD has been assigned 14 /22's, IPv6 that
> is, not IPv4, they all come from a single IPv6 /13 though, which is what
> they apparently asked for in the beginning, at least that was the rumor,
> well they got what they wanted.
>

So, someone else pointed out that the DoD isn't one org, really. There
are several groups/orgs under DoD, there are several groups nested
under each of those groups, and depending upon the network
architecture/topology used it's fully possible that one route
announcement isn't practical for this Org.

What I think we should worry about is a larger portion of that Org
with a large enough part of one of the  /22's doing something silly
like: "redistribute connected" ... (which they could, of course, have
done with any/all of their /8's -> /16's in ipv4 as well...)

-Chris

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