<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Andrew,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Alston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D">Hi Vincent,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D">I’m ok with all of this except for the following:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:" helvetica","sans-serif""=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> </DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">* The intial provider independent assignment size to an end-site should be a /48, or a shorter/longer prefix if the end-site can justify it.<O:P></O:P></P> </DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:" helvetica","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">I’m happy with /48s, I’m even happier with bigger blocks, but there should *<B>NEVER</B>* be a situation where the block is smaller than this in the global routing tables. If the blocks can ever be smaller than /48 in size it is going to create major BGP filtering headaches.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P><BR></O:P></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>We covered the *smaller than* allocation to cater for end-sites such as IXP's. It's an option.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-v<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV class="Section1"><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Can this wording be clarified?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Many Thanks<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Andrew Alston<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">TENET – Chief Technology Officer<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> </DIV> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">resource-policy mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:resource-policy@afrinic.net">resource-policy@afrinic.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/resource-policy">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/resource-policy</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>