RE: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

[Forrest <forrest () almighty c64 org>]

True enough, but are there any providers currently that filter /24's from 
the old Class C space that /24's were assigned directly from?  

I realize that if proposal 2002-3 does get passed but everyone filters 
those prefixes then it will be a completely worthless proposal, and even 
worse than using PA space.  

It seems to me that proposal 2002-3 could enable providers to filter more 
efficiently however.  They could accept the long prefixes out of the 
micro-assignment block, while filtering out all the garbage /24's in the 
other space caused by people needlessly announcing every /24 out of their 
large aggregate.

Forrest

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Andrew Dul wrote:

> Forrest, 
>
> Even if ARIN passes this policy that will not make any provider change
> their filtering policy.  It is true that many providers do use the ARIN
> allocation sizes to create their filtering rules but the two are not
> inherently linked.  Any ASN can choose the filter on what ever rule set
> they choose.
>
> Andrew