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Re: IPv6 Advertisements

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Tue May 29 01:46:53 2007

Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 08:45:38 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070528213609.W10387@calis.blacksun.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, 28 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote:
> What is the smallest IPv6 advertisement that organizations are going to 
> honour- are we still looking at a minimum of a /48?

Anything more specific than /32 is going to be filtered at some 
portion of the ISPs whether for the good or bad.  There are some 
subsets of the v6 address space that have a higher chance of /48 
working (for some definition of 'working') than other parts of the 
address space, though.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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