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

[Leo Vegoda]

On 28 Aug 2007, at 16:53, Vincent Ngundi wrote:

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> That's subjective. I agree with Leo, the earlier we start educating  
> operators on the practice, the faster the problem shall peter. We  
> need to announce the /48 prefixes on all the nog lists (and other  
> similar forums) and talk about this new kind of filtering whenever  
> we can (RIR's should take the lead on this and might want to  
> consider including this in their awareness programs). Relaxing  
> policies isn't going to do the community any good; _now or in the  
> long run.

It occurs to me that there are five RIRs and that each RIR maintains  
a separate web page, listing the /8s, /23s and /12s they have and the  
size of allocations and assignments they make from those prefixes. I  
think the formats are slightly different, too. It might be helpful to  
operators if this information was available from a single, trusted  
source in a single, computer readable format.

Do you think that would help network operators when they want to  
build filter lists?

Regards,

Leo Vegoda