[96892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Tue May 29 11:24:20 2007
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:04:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0705291439280.11314@marvin.argfrp.us.uu.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> That said- ARIN is handing out /48's- should we be blocking validly
>> assigned networks?
>
> your network might have to to protect it's valuable routing slots. There
> are places in the v4 world where /24's are not carried either. So, as Bill
> said just cause you get an allocation doesn't mean you can assure
> routability of it everywhere.
I understand the problems but I think there are clear cut cases where
/48's make sense- a large scale anycast DNS provider would seem to be a
good candidate for a /48 and I would hope it would get routed. Then again
that might be the only sensible reason...
-Don
