Cleansing 6bone (Was: RE: [6bone] pTLA request by CTN1 - review closes 16 December 2003)

[Jeroen Massar]

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Tim Chown wrote:

> Given the fact that this may be the last pTLA (though I have 
> a suspicion a few other people may try to get that honour in the few days 
> to come!) I think we could be "liberal in what we accept" here.   It 
> seems unecessary to waste too many cycles on nit-picking this request.

Then let the last pTLA go to the party that really is going to use it
and not some 'webhosting' club that thinks it's l337 or r4d or whatever
they think it is. The request rules should have included a 200 minimum
prospective client limit or something, just like the real TLA's.
But then again, that depends on for what purpose one wants to use the
testbed. If the powers that be decide that they can have it, so be it.

> Some networks already don't accept 6bone prefix routes, so the utility
> of 6bone pTLAs is already beginning to wane (which is a good 
> thing - it's been a great time and a lot of excellent work has been done,
> but it's time to move on :)

It's also a time to move on and start filtering private ASN's from the
internet. As currently seen by GRH:

2001:cd8::/32   2001:610:25:5062::62     1103 3425 293 6435 6342 64600 4787 4780
2001:cd8::/32   2001:1548:1:10::4        12565 5609 4555 109 6342 64600 4787 4780
2001:cd8::/32   2001:610:ff:c::2         1888 1103 3425 293 6435 6342 64600 4787 4780
2001:cd8::/32   2001:470:112:0:feed::1   30071 13944 6435 6342 64600 4787 4780
2001:d10::/32   2001:610:25:5062::62     1103 3425 293 6435 6342 64600 4787
2001:d10::/32   2001:610:ff:c::2         1888 1103 3425 293 6435 6342 64600 4787
2001:d10::/32   2001:780:0:2::6          12337 8560 8763 5539 109 6342 64600 4787  

Yes, even AS109 doesn't filter on private ASN's, but AS6342 should have
taken care of that anyways. An idonesian prefix being transitted by a
southern american, somehow I don't think that is very speedy...
But it is their network ofcourse...

> Perhaps we should have an initiative to encourage existing pTLA owners
> to officially hand back their prefixes.  Some have done so already.

Check the http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/tla/6bone/ pages as that has
already begun quite some time ago, as you probably know.

Unfortunatly there are also a number of 'networks' that don't know any
more that they actually have a pTLA, there are also a couple that went
belly up etc.

Anyone heard anything from FIBERTEL btw? See 3ffe:2200::/24 for instance.
And ofcourse an ATT EMEA contact would be nice too.

See http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/lg/?show=evilbogons&find=::/0
for the big list(tm) ofcourse.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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