[131672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Iannone)
Mon Nov 1 11:09:24 2010
In-Reply-To: <CC6DA66A-9DCB-42DC-9E20-F950FA4EE0EF@virtualized.org>
From: Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:08:53 -0600
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Define long prefix length. Owen has been fairly forceful in his
advocacy of /48s at every site. Is this too long a prefix? Should
peers only except /32s and shorter?
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 1:12 PM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> 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.
>
> Why would the commercial interests that have driven ISPs to remove long prefix length filters in IPv4 not apply to IPv6?
>
> Regards,
> -drc
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