Re: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:30:13PM +0100, Tim Chown wrote:
> 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 :)

Could you elaborate on that a bit more?  What exactly are they filtering?

(For example, one could filter everything more-specific than a /48, or
everything more-specific than a /32 plus all from 3FFE:*)

> 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.

Check the MIPP proposal.  The commercial ISPs have the same goal, not
only for "research" IPv6, but for day-to-day IPv6 ;-)

Gert Doering
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