[118247] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Fri Oct 16 01:52:39 2009
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:51:24 -0700
From: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <7B843A6F-DAAC-4387-B197-67DBC4DD4DE0@daork.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Nathan Ward wrote:
> On 16/10/2009, at 1:17 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
>
>> Is there any good solution to this? I don't expect us to fill the /32
>> to justify expanding it (although I do see ARIN appears to have left
>> space for up to a /29; I guess that's their sparse allocation policy?).
>
> Your justification is that you have two sites without a guaranteed
> link between them.
>
> This is a bit annoying though, yeah. But, I'm not sure I can think of
> a good solution that doesn't involve us changing the routing system so
> that we can handle a huge amount of intentional de-aggregates or
> something.
>
> --
> Nathan Ward
>
Actually, as of right now that's not justification. The Multiple
Discrete Networks policy that's up for a vote in Dearborn will allow for
this, but right now there's no IPv6 equivalent of that policy.
-Dave
