[133345] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Wed Dec 8 14:27:04 2010
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:26:56 -0700
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinb74OYHkyBgN-Ezr4cx7dO3WWUovQFx-5qMOWY@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/8/10 11:59 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> Just because we've been treading water as fast as possible to try to stay
> above the drowing point in small prefix ranges does*not* mean we have
> extra headroom to waste on even smaller ranges. I've started contemplating
> filtering out blocks smaller than /22, and trusting that somewhere, someone
> will be sending out a supernet that covers the smaller bits.
Except that when you have legacy resources (such as /24 end user
allocations), there is no supernet announcement since these blocks could
technically be anywhere in their respective regions.
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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
