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

[Bill Manning]

% 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.
% 

	I would, but ARIN does not want to.  That being said,
	Folks who want choice in where to get blocks for exchanges
	have that choice. 

--bill
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