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Re: Failover IPv6 with multiple PA prefixes (Was: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses)


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:05:54 -0700


On Oct 31, 2010, at 12:12 PM, David Conrad wrote:

On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Would it help if ARIN's policies were changed to allow anyone and everyone
to obtain PI space directly from them (for the appropriate fee, of course), and
then it was left up to the operating community to decide whether or not to
route the smaller chunks of space?
I really don't expect this to be as much of an issue in IPv6.

Why would the commercial interests that have driven ISPs to remove long prefix length filters in IPv4 not apply to 
IPv6?

I don't expect the IPv6 routing table to be long enough to drive prefix filtration
in the foreseeable future.

Owen



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