[118109] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Oct 12 18:41:45 2009
To: Jeff McAdams <jeffm@iglou.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:26:28 EDT."
<4AD382E4.9010901@iglou.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:40:47 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <4AD382E4.9010901@iglou.com>, Jeff McAdams writes:
> Seth Mattinen wrote:
>
> > If you are interested, I don't want to spam the list with my Verizon
> > horror story, but you can read it here:
> > http://www.rollernet.us/wordpress/category/ipv6/
>
> At the risk of sounding like I'm piling on, I'm in the same basically
> the same boat that Seth is, except that I do know who my account rep is
> and have been in touch with him.
>
> Verizon's policy has been related to me that they will not accept or
> propogate any IPv6 route advertisements with prefix lengths longer than
> /32. Full stop. So that even includes those of us that have /48 PI
> space from ARIN that are direct customers of Verizon.
Looks like Verizon doesn't want any IPv6 customers. If a company
has idiotic policies like this vote with your wallet.
> I've been told that Verizon is discussing this policy and whether it
> should be updated, but until they update their policy to be in line with
> the IPv6 Internet allocation/assignment policies from at least September
> of 2006 (when ARIN assigned their first /48 from 2620:0::/23), if your
> announcements are only longer than /32, you should be aware that Verizon
> is completely unreachable for you - even if you are a Verizon customer
> directly.
>
> --
> Jeff McAdams
>
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