[afripv6-discuss] Are AfriNic's /48 being filtered?

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Hi Mark,

This is the reason why I always insisted that PI should be /32.

Many people will IGNORE what AfriNIC or other RIRs tell them and will keep
filtering anything longer than /32.

Nice to have non-reachable critical infrastructures !

In my opinion we should still consider a change in the policy to allow
AfriNIC to assign a /32 in case is proven, as in this case, than the /48 is
getting filtered.

The LACNIC policy for critical infrastructures allows that. The staff is
free to assign a /32 if the situation requires it, even if it seems "wasting
addresses". At the end a few thousands (in the worst case, because I believe
it will be just hundreds) of /32 will not make a difference, but the COST of
getting them working is much smaller that the cost of saving vs. /48.

Regards,
Jordi




> De: Mark J Elkins <mje at posix.co.za>
> Organización: Posix Systems
> Responder a: "IPv6 in Africa <afripv6-discuss at afrinic.net>"
> <afripv6-discuss at afrinic.net>
> Fecha: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:07:29 +0200
> Para: "IPv6 in Africa <afripv6-discuss at afrinic.net>"
> <afripv6-discuss at afrinic.net>
> Asunto: [afripv6-discuss] Are AfriNic's /48 being filtered?
> 
> I'm looking at :-
> http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za
> 
> My own /32 block seems to be everywhere - but the block for UniForum is
> only getting about a 80% penetration around the world.  I see the other
> /48 is fairing even worse (73% penetration).
> 
> Initially - I had to ask my Transit (Tiscali) to explicitly allow it.
> 
> Has AfriNIC explicitly told people (the world) that  2001:43f8::/32 will
> be used for /48's ???
> (Do they need to announce this somewhere?)
> 
> My suspicion is that its being filtered by a number of operators.
> 
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