Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?

Brielle Bruns bruns at 2mbit.com
Wed Dec 8 19:26:56 UTC 2010


On 12/8/10 11:59 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> Just because we've been treading water as fast as possible to try to stay
> above the drowing point in small prefix ranges does*not*  mean we have
> extra headroom to waste on even smaller ranges.  I've started contemplating
> filtering out blocks smaller than /22, and trusting that somewhere, someone
> will be sending out a supernet that covers the smaller bits.

Except that when you have legacy resources (such as /24 end user 
allocations), there is no supernet announcement since these blocks could 
technically be anywhere in their respective regions.

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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
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