RE: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

["Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>]

David / Tim,


> David Kessens wrote:
> Having said this, this list is about establishing policies.
> And although the registries cannot get involved on how networks
> are actually being operated, it would be stupid to ignore the
> operational reality and technical limitations of the current
> routing system.

Let's not confuse establishing policies and trying to find a
quick-and-dirty fix to the temporary lack of a multihoming solution.
Allowing to punch holes in PA space and allow the routing of prefixes
all the way down to a /52 has long-term negative effects and that's
precisely why it won't work because there are enough people out there
that understand that it's not a solution and that will continue
filtering.


> Tim Chown wrote:
> 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.

Agree. I was in a Canada/US NREN meeting two weeks ago and I was struck
by the willingness of these people to be good netizens. NRENs have the
closest thing there is to a real, native, high-speed IPv6 backbone (I
would not mind if it could carry commercial traffic) and as long as
large ISPs follows the same practice the operational reality is that
there _is_ filtering.


Michel.