[156395] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Mon Sep 17 11:39:28 2012
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:37:57 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Adrian Bool <aid@logic.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <E90589B0-0199-444F-8B83-EBD9DB0CA867@logic.org.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/17/12 8:23 AM, Adrian Bool wrote:
> Hi Mike,
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> On 17 Sep 2012, at 16:04, Mike Simkins <mike.simkins@sungard.com> wrote:
>> RIPE 552 (I think), allows you to request up to a /29 without additional
>> justification if needed.
> Sure, but you're just tinkering at the edges here.
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> 32-bits would be a more sensible allocation size to LIRs, allowing them construct their addressing plan in a logical, hierarchal manner whilst allowing for growth - and most importantly ensuring they only advertise a single route into the global routing table.
Which fine except we have assignment practices that have the result
requiring the allocation of much shorter prefixes. Just handing out /32s
fails the objective reality test.
Regarding the single route, no they don't. and nobody that I know is
filtering on /32 or longer.
> Kind regards,
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> Adrian
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