[157981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sander Steffann)
Sun Nov 18 19:05:27 2012
From: Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb7zWsO6t0Dhpn7rW1HHXW_2Z_OFNLhQPEpg9XxNRHo2Nw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:04:37 +0100
To: Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
> I've tried contacting them in an effort to receive any kind of a
> "proper" IPv6 address without the plaintext IPv4 embedment, but
> they've given me all sorts of crazy and (IMHO) far-sketched excuses;
> from not wanting to maintain a separate database of IPv6
> addresses/subnets, and from lack of software provisioning support; to
> supposedly RIPE and/or edis' upstream providers requiring public whois
> entries for any /64's that edis.at would allocate for their customers
I can guarantee you that RIPE does *not* require public whois records =
for individual /64s (or even for separate /48s in PA space).
- Sander
