filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Fri Mar 9 09:27:04 UTC 2012

On 2012-03-09 10:02 , Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at akcin.net> wrote:
>> if you know anyone who is filtering /48 , you can start telling them to STOP doing so as a good citizen of internet6.
> 
> I had a bit of off-list discussion about this topic, and I was not
> going to bring it up today on-list, but since the other point of view
> is already there, I may as well.
> 
> Unless you are going to pay the bill for my clients to upgrade their
> 3BXL/3CXL systems (and similar) to XXL and then XXXL, I think we need
> to do two things before IPv6 up-take is really broad:
> 
> 1) absolutely must drop /48 de-aggregates from ISP blocks

See the strict filter at:
 http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html

which has been proposed for quite a long time already.

Also note the existence of this awesome thing called RPSL.

See also this great presentation by ras:
http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/presentations/Tuesday/RAS_irrdata_N44.pdf

and the very recent column by Geoff Huston:
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-03/leaks.html

> 2) absolutely must make RIR policy so orgs can get /48s for
> anycasting, and whatever other purposes

One can already receive those easily, generally as a /48.

Also, quite a few organizations are requesting disjunct /32's per
country or at least a /32 per region....

Greets,
 Jeroen