On 6 feb 2009, at 16:02, Joe Loiacono wrote:
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.
That range alone is 25 bits of routing, equivalent to routing all
the way
down to /25s in the IPv4 world. But I don't see how you could route
some
/48s without having software to route all /48s and that is
hugemongous.
And then times 4 for 128 bits. But, I'm not a routing engine guy, so
I'm
probably missing something ...
The problem is that ARIN reserves a /44 for every /48 they give out.
So that means the most you'll see out of that /23 is 2M prefixes (I
don't think there are many routers out there that can handle a v6
table this large) but since you need to accept /48s, this could be
deaggregated into 32M prefixes.
The RIRs need to stop this reservation stuff, it makes prefix length
filtering impossible.
