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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Michel Py wrote: > > The bottom line is that as long as at least one of the large v6 ISP is filtering nobody serious about Traffic Engineering would bother announcing longer prefixes because they don't want to carry traffic internally. I hear that NRENs are filtering for the most part and fortunately at least some of the large brokers such as Viagénie are doing things right and filter as well. For what I can tell, these organizations have the support of the community. > Yep, most NRENs are filtering. GEANT certainly is (the intra-European backbone) and will also I believe start filtering 6bone prefixes from the Autumn (not waiting for 06/06/06 :) The academic networks are trying to get a strict(ish) policy running to make research IPv6 networking stable, reliable and predictable enough for day to day use. > I think that the point Craig was trying to make is that there is no point announcing long prefixes if half of the ASes filter them. If there were only one or two small stray ASes filtering it would be a different picture but this is not what I see today. Agreed. Tim
