Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

Wed Nov 10 00:43:29 UTC 2004

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jørgen Hovland" <jorgen at hovland.cx>
To: "Network.Security" <Network.Security at target.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Network.Security" <Network.Security at target.com>
>
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> > On 2004-11-09-17:10:02, "Network.Security" <Network.Security at target.com>
> > wrote:
> >> We receive a disturbingly large amount of traffic sourced from the 1918
> >> space destined for our network coming from one of our normally
> >> respectable Tier 1 ISP's (three letter acronym, starts with 'M', ends
> >> with 'CI').
> >>
> >> This is particularly irritating since we pay for burstable service;
nice
> >> that we are paying for illegitimate traffic to come down our pipes.
>
> Hello. I felt I had to write a small comment to this.
>
> For the record, we use 1918 address range on several of our public routers
> meaning you will get legitimate traffic from this address space, atleast
> from us unless you are filtering it (which is of course all your
decision).
> Filtering any type of traffic at all by a transit provider without the
> possibility to remove these filters _could_ be reason enough for us to
> terminate the contract with them since we would feel we were not paying
for
> real internet connectivity.

funny. you must be talking about a different internet. i hear there have
been 'rumours out on the internets [sic]', maybe i'm just behind the times..
<g>

all jokes aside, 1918 allows for use of 1918 space in a private network or a
'private internet [sic]' comprised of any such number of private networks as
agree to interconnect and cooperate in routing traffic sourced from and
destined to said space. it follows that any 1918-sourced traffic you send me
is illegitimate. out of curiosity, what kind of 'legitimate traffic',
considering i couldn't legitimately reply back, were you speaking of?

p