[75911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Sun Nov 28 08:34:17 2004
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:33:43 +0100
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* Cliff Albert <cliff@oisec.net> [2004-11-28 14:22]:
> As I also stated in my last post (which you snipped out, and is pretty
> relevant) is that the handing out of ASN's should be harder. Currently
> ASN's are given to every silly dude that says 'i want multihoming'.
I snipped that because I have nothing to add... as in, I agree that
care should be taken to only give out ASNs to those who are really
going to use it in a sane fashion. and maybe revoked easier when
they're not in use.
> However I understand your statement, but the IPv4 policy's are mostly
> there because you still have to support the old way. In IPv6 we can do
> things the new way, so why shouldn't we decide on new policies that get
> us to stop all issues we had with IPv4.
we'll never see the new way if it has so big drawbacks for so many
organizations that are happy with the old way.
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