[SANOG] Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block based to delegations based for NIR

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Wed Dec 22 03:54:27 UTC 2021


On 22/12/21 06:50, Randy Bush via sanog wrote:

>> A big block to NIR can help in super netting the v6 announcement at
>> NIR (or at country level) , which can help in reducing the routing
>> table size in long terms AND can also have IPv6 allocations in
>> consecutive order for the economies where we have NIRs.
> 
> this is severely broken.  proxy aggregation is routing falsehood and
> goes against the use of bgp's abilities to route efficiently in the AS
> graph.

I am surprised that anyone who has done any routing engineering in the 
wild would even consider that this might work.

Mark.


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