On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jack Bates <jba...@brightok.net> wrote:
> Joe Loiacono wrote: > >> >> Indeed it does. And don't forget that the most basic data object in the >> routing table, the address itself, is 4 times as big. >> > > Let's also not forget, that many organizations went from multiple > allocations to a single allocation. If we all filter anything longer than > /32, we'll rearrange the flow of traffic that many over the years have > altered through longer prefixes. Even I suspect I may occasionally have to > let a /40 out now and then to alter it's traffic from the rest of the > aggregate. Traffic comes to you as it wants to come to you. The only pseudo > remedy that currently exists is to move some prefixes over to a different > path. If you only have a /32, that'll be a bit hard. > > This, more than anything, is what will effect this list and the people on > it where IPv6 is concerned. Filtering longer than /33, 35, 40? Dare we go to > /48 and treat them as the new /24? I know for myself, traffic manipulation > can't begin until /40 (unless I split them further apart). > > Given that ARIN at least is assigning end-user /48s out of 2620::/23 it would be useful to accept these announcements. If not end-user PI is dead in the water. Some providers might like that. End-users probably won't. Tim:>
