[118112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Oct 12 19:25:23 2009
To: bclark@spectraaccess.com
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:09:02 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:24:35 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <1255388942.12984.1.camel@acer-laptop>, Bret Clark writes:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:40 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Unfortunately, not everyone always has that choice.
If there isn't as choice then regulation is required.
Mark
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