[97051] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu May 31 10:40:20 2007
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:45:43 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Brandon Butterworth" <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
>> > Don't give people an excuse to deagg their /32
>
>> RIPE may only give out /32's but ARIN gives out /48's so there wouldn't
>> be
>> any deaggregation in that case.
>
> That's not what I said. If /48 are accepted by * then people with
> a /32 or whatever will deagg to /48.
The general rule, for both v4 and v6, is that people should filter on
whatever the minimum allocation/assignment size for each RIR block. It's
also been suggested that you accept a few more bits for routes with a short
AS_PATH length to help with TE, but that's optional.
Someone recently posted a link (either on PPML or here -- I can't find it
now) that showed ARIN's minima for the various v4 and v6 blocks. The v4
ones were all over the map, but there are relatively few v6 blocks and all
of them are /32 except for one that's /48.
The upside is that in the block you're expected to accept /48s, nobody will
have a /32. The downside is that anyone who gets a larger-than-minimum
sized allocation/assignment can deaggregate down to that level.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything
CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
K5SSS --Isaac Asimov
