[6bone] 2001:478:: as /48

Michel Py michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:57:00 -0700


>> John Fraizer wrote:
>> Bill was just notifying us that we SHOULD accept the prefixes as
>> un-aggregated, not that they were in the wild yet, unaggregated.

> Robert Kiessling wrote:
> No, he did not. He said we cannot expect to see an aggregate, but
> that does *not* mean that we should accept /48's and /64's.
> At least in RIPE region those prefixes are given out with the
> explicit warning that they might not be routable. And in fact,
> for the specific purposes like exchange point meshes, they don't
> need to be announced at all.

> Please don't try to create "PI" space by suggesting that those
> prefixes should be accepted.

I strongly agree with Robert.

Michel.