[146030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using IPv6 address block across multiple locations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Mon Oct 31 12:31:46 2011
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:30:49 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EAE7BE9.3030705@unfix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/31/11 03:43 , Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On 2011-10-31 08:56 , Dmitry Cherkasov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please advice what is the best practice to use IPv6 address block
>> across distributed locations.
>
> You go to multiple RIRs and get multiple prefixes.
>
> Heck, you apparently can even get multiple disjunct prefixes from the
> same RIR.
>
> There went the whole idea of aggregation....
or you could just get an aggregateable block of the appropiate size from
one RIR and deaggregate it as necessary which should be the normal
course of action...
> Greets,
> Jeroen
>
> (Note though that some entities who actually got disjunct prefixes are
> quite large and will be putting quite a number of hosts behind those
> prefixes, thus the usage/prefix ratio is quite high and likely worthy of
> a routing slot)
>
