Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> On top of that, I do have one other concern...  how does an end-user
> network obtain address space that would be routable when divided into the
> separate geographic regions?  For example, if I want address space that I
> can divide into chunks, each announced from a different Internet access
> point, do I need to ask for a /32 for each of the routing points or should
> the RIR's be advising ISP's that they should do filtering, if necessary,
> at minimum_allocation + 4 bits, or something like that?  I realize the
> RIR's don't want to guarantee routability, but they really should take it
> into consideration.

Do I take it that you'd want to advertise more specifics based on some 
geography in some regions?

This begs two questions (for which I have some answers of my own, but I'd 
like to hear yours):

 1) why not advertise just the one /32 everywhere?

 2) would those more specifics be scoped tightly to a routing point (that 
is, could one assume, that it might be possible to negotiate a special 
pass-through for the local affected ISP's for the more specific)?


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