<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Alston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aa@tenet.ac.za" target="_blank">aa@tenet.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Tim,<br>
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As per my previous email, yes, it does, clause 3.5.2 lowers the minimum allocation size to a /27, which I think is hugely problematic.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Andrew<br>
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To: Stacy Hughes<br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Opposition to AFPUB-2010-v4-005-draft-01<br>
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Dear IP Goddess,<br>
<br>
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Stacy Hughes <<a href="mailto:ipgoddess.arin@gmail.com" target="_blank">ipgoddess.arin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Esteemed Colleagues,<br>
> I must speak in opposition to this proposal.<br>
> First, I am philosophically opposed to soft landing proposals in general.<br>
> When the party is over, it's time to go home. We don't get 5 more minutes<br>
> or more birthday cake.<br>
<br>
Have you ever been to a 1st graders birthday party???....they get the<br>
5 more minutes AND more cake...I experienced this first hand a few<br>
days ago ;-/<br>
<br>
Incorporation of and transition to IPv6 is the way<br>
> forward, and necessary for all of us.<br>
<br>
<br>
Full ACK<br>
<br>
><br>
> I especially disagree with direct assignments or allocations of IPv4 space<br>
> in subnets of longer prefix lengths than /24.<br>
<br>
Does this proposal do that? If so, I must have missed that in this iteration.<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div>Personally, I too would disagree with the allocation of prefixes that are greater than /24 in length.<br><br>While one could argue that filtering could be amended to facilitate such a requirement, a number of technical issues, some of which have been raised by Andrew Alston, exist which would mean that such a decision would have far reaching consequences related to current hardware and software limitations.<br>
<br>
Individual and regional providers may be convinced to update their
filters, however this is something which would require global buy-in with the
major service providers and transit providers of the world. Without service providers agreeing to accept these longer prefixes, those that have been assigned these prefixes will be unable to make use of them in any meaningf<br>
<br>Additionally allowing /27 or greater subnets to be received within the global BGP table and to view such advertisements as acceptable will most likely promote further de-aggregation of the global table as various providers de-aggregate their existing subnets to achieve traffic engineering.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>
route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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