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Re: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Wed May 30 21:45:55 2007

Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:20:26 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
	Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>,
	ietf@ietf.org, ipv6@he.net, ipv6@gblx.net,
	Bill Manning <bmanning@karoshi.com>
In-Reply-To: <465D9224.9090402@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> And what do we see: 6bone space and still in use.
> 
> As a lot of places correctly filter it out, the PMTU's get dropped, as
> they are supposed to be dropped.
> 
> The whois.6bone.net registry is fun of course:
> 
> inet6num:     3FFE:800::/24
> netname:      ISI-LAP
> descr:        Harry Try IPv6
> country:      CA

	one very good reason to not trust whois databases.

> Fortunately it still also has:
> 
> ipv6-site:    ISI-LAP
> origin:       AS4554
> descr:        LAP-EXCHANGE
>               Los Angeles
> country:      US
> 
> Which matches what GRH has on list for it: Bill.

	Hi.

> Now I have a very very very simple question:
> 
> Can you folks finally, a year after the 6bone was supposed to be
> completely gone, renumber from out that 6bone address space that you
> are not supposed to use anymore?

	Sure...  there are only a few left.  Got rid of two a couple
	weeks back.  That said....

	I will announce the prefix as long as people are using it.
	(whine away)

> Thank you, I sincerely hope that this matter will finally be resolved.

	It will, but not on your arbitrary timetable.

> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
> 



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