Re: filtering long prefixes

[Willi Huber <huber () chx400 switch ch>]

> Yes, Geert Jan, but if you look at the list I prepared,
> you'll note that the only chunks of old style Bs that are
> 18-bits long all come from one home-AS and most are in a
> pair of old-style class Bs which easily could be aggregated
> into a single /15 with the loss of some routing specificity
> (which is lost anyway when that provider's internal metrics
> don't propagate to its external peers).
>
> The remainder of the 'chunks' of old style Bs are
> all longer than 18 bits, and most are /24s or /26s,
> and I see none at all that appear difficult to aggregate,
> or which look like anything other than leaks due to
> misconfiguration.
>
> If you get to the point where someone needs to have a /18
> in the old-style class B space and it can't be aggregated,
> we can return to this.
>
>       Sean.

Hallo,

the Municipality of Zuerich has got assigned 1/2 class B in April this year 
after a long discussion with RIPE NCC. They will soon get onto Internet.
I need to be sure that this address space is routed on the Internet.

Sean, Geert-Jan, could you comment, please.

Regards,

Willi Huber

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