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Re: IPv6 routing /48s
From: Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:47:44 -0500
On 2008-11-17, at 17:46, Robert.E.VanOrmer () frb gov wrote:
Are there any parties out there routing /48 IPv6 networks globally?
Yes. Some particularly visible examples are root and TLD server operators. There are some TLDs which are well-served by IPv6-capable nameservers, but which would be completely invisible to v6-only clients if their covering /48s were not accepted.
ASes which refuse prefixes longer than 32 bits across the board as a matter of policy are broken.
The last time I looked, the RIRs with v6 micro-assignment policies were all doing long-prefix assignments from an easy-to-identify range of addresses. Creating a general-purpose filter which lets through PI / 48s but drops PA/deaggregated /48s is not rocket science.
I ran into a supposed Catch-22 with Verizon and IPv6 address space and was looking for clarification.
I was once told by another large carrier I was trying to buy from in Miami that "you are not allowed to announce your own addresses in IPv6; you have to use addresses from your upstream".
While the goal of encouraging use of PA addresses and discouraging deaggregation may be noble and good, it seems more education is required in some areas. "There is such a thing as PI in IPv6", for example, and perhaps "just because it's a /48 doesn't mean it's not PI".
Joe
Current thread:
- IPv6 routing /48s Robert . E . VanOrmer (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Mark Tinka (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Nick Hilliard (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Kevin Oberman (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Michael Sinatra (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Joe Abley (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Owen DeLong (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Frank Habicht (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Owen DeLong (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Nathan Ward (Nov 17)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Joe Maimon (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Christopher Morrow (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Michael Sinatra (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Joel Jaeggli (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Christopher Morrow (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Jack Bates (Nov 18)
- Re: IPv6 routing /48s Jeroen Massar (Nov 18)