[131660] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Nov 1 00:09:44 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CC6DA66A-9DCB-42DC-9E20-F950FA4EE0EF@virtualized.org>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:05:54 -0700
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 31, 2010, at 12:12 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> Would it help if ARIN's policies were changed to allow anyone and =
everyone
>>> to obtain PI space directly from them (for the appropriate fee, of =
course), and
>>> then it was left up to the operating community to decide whether or =
not to
>>> route the smaller chunks of space?
>> I really don't expect this to be as much of an issue in IPv6.
>=20
> Why would the commercial interests that have driven ISPs to remove =
long prefix length filters in IPv4 not apply to IPv6?
>=20
I don't expect the IPv6 routing table to be long enough to drive prefix =
filtration
in the foreseeable future.
Owen
