On 17-Jan-2007, at 12:43, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:19 PM, David Freedman wrote:
I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable
to /24 in order to fit with the current trend.
In the 2002-3 micro-assignment policy, the RIR's assign a minimum
of a /22.
The RIRs all have different policies, and anybody interested in
finding out the rules for any individual RIR are best advised to
consult the policy documents published by the RIR in question
directly. The original question in this thread (that of reachability
of addresses covered by long-prefix announcements) is profoundly on-
topic here, however, and explicitly disclaimed by all the RIRs last
time I checked.
For the ARIN region, the Number Resource Policy Manual currently
published at <http://www.arin.net/> mentions the following minima:
4.3.2.1 Single Connection
The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN to end-
users is a /20. [...]
4.3.2.2 Multihomed Connection
For end-users who demonstrate an intent to announce the requested
space in a multihomed fashion, the minimum block of IP address
space assigned is a /22. [...]
4.4 Micro-allocation
ARIN will make micro-allocations to critical infrastructure
providers of the Internet, including public exchange points, core
DNS service providers (e.g. ICANN-sanctioned root, gTLD and ccTLD
operators) as well as the RIRs and IANA. These allocations will
be no longer than a /24 using IPv4 or a /48 using IPv6. [...]
As far as I know, all of the PI /24's are thus "legacy" in nature.
As the above snippet from the policy manual suggests (and as my
experience confirms) there are recent assignments made to end users
by ARIN under the micro-allocation policy which were made with the
expectation that individual /24s would be advertised globally.
Clearly these are not the most usual case, as the description of
those who qualify for such assignments above indicates, but it would
be a mistake to assume that *all* /24 assignments are legacy.
From my experience, /24's and longer assigned by RIRs likely to be
routed, as well as ones from the old class C space, and people have
mostly had problems with /24 PA space in the old Class A and B space.
I'm not aware of widespread filtering of /24s based on assignment
boundaries in recent years. Can anybody confirm whether this is still
a real problem?
The real problem today, I thought, was that of allocations or
assignments being made from fresh /8s that still feature in peoples'
bogon filters.
Joe
