[184405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /27 the new /24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Oct 2 16:06:13 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:05:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
In-Reply-To: <20151002164203.GC3097@excession.tpb.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * tom@ninjabadger.net (Tom Hill) [Fri 02 Oct 2015, 18:34 CEST]:
>> Any RIR - or LIR - that considers allocating space in sizes smaller than a
>> /24 (for the purpose of announcing to the DFZ) would do well to read this
>> report from RIPE Labs:
>>
>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/has-the-routability-of-longer-than-24-prefixes-changed
>>
>> tl;dr: it's still a bad idea to allocate smaller than a /24.
>
> RIPE has long allocated up to /29. Not everybody needs addresses for the
> Internet; some just need a guarantee of global uniqueness.
Right, but the OP's question seems to be pointed much more toward global
reachability, not just global uniqueness.
jms
