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

John Fraizer tvo@enterzone.net
Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:25:04 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> I know who Bill is and what he does, but I don't understand
> why in ARIN space a company uses it's *own* /32 as IX prefixes
> and then suddenly expects it to be handled like the *dedicated*
> IX prefixes of which there is one in each RIR.

How about because there was at least ONE v6 exchange point in the US
running on address space from 2001:478:: BEFORE ARIN decided to to make
use of 2001:504:: for this purpose.


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