Little Problem

Bob Fink fink@es.net
Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:27:55 -0800


At 08:39 PM 1/10/2002 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
>Hello Bob, thanks a lot for your quick answer.
>Now everything is just most clear but in rfc2772 i can't see why a site
>without their own asn cannot use the upstream provider's asn to request a
>pTLA. Can you explain me this?

If you are a pTLA their is no upstream IPv6 provider. If you mean use your 
IPv4 provider's ASN, then you prevent them from ever using it for v6 and 
I'm sure they wouldn't like that :-)

The issue is having a unique ASN in the global routing infrastructure.


Bob