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

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, John Fraizer wrote:
> 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.

Renumber.  It's trivial to set up identical BGP sessions with the new 
addresses and retire the old when your peer configures the BGP session in 
turn.  After all have done that, remove the old prefix.

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