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Re: IPv6 Advertisements


From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton () ryouko imsb nrc ca>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:41:35 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 29 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote:

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...

f-root does this on the IPv6 side:  2001:500::/48

Whether that's available everywhere on IPv6 networks, is as Bill pointed-out, another question.

wfms


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