[6bone] RE: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] Update on IPv6 filter recommendation

[Jeroen Massar]

Gert Doering wrote:

<SNIP>

> > This could also be refined. Not all 2001::/16 has been delegated to
> > RIRs. ARIN got a block, RIPE got a block, APNIC got a 
> block, but there
> > still is some undelegated space. The drawback of refining 
> to that level
> > is that it will inevitably induce a situation similar to 
> 69/8 and will
> > require maintenance, but the other side of that coin is 
> that it would
> > prevent people from hijacking prefixes from undelegated space.
> 
> Someone else already commented on this.  As the address space 
> is pretty
> sparsely populated, people still would be able to hijack addresses 
> (like "2001:609::/32", which is adjacent to our /32, but 
> right now just unallocated).

*whisper in ear* not after tonight when the bogon reporting gets active
:)

Things that it does cover already:
 - unallocated prefixes
 - wrong source ASN's

Though ofcourse one could bypass that when using the registered source
ASN.
That could be detected if we knew every 'upstream' for that prefix...

Greets,
 Jeroen