On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>wrote:
Is there some central repository for information on this? We usually seem to find out about such changes out of the ARIN region a bit after the fact.
Have we not learnt from v4?
If there are to be filters then they should be defined once and never changed as people will fail to update
Yay! We can return to classful routing again. That sure worked out well for us the first time around. ^_^;
If a different allocation requirement arises then start a new prefix (v6 is big enough to handle this) and define its filter once. Do not allocate it from an existing range and expect people to adjust their filters.
So, if I need to break up my /32 into 4 /34s to cover different geographical regions, I should instead renumber into a new range set aside for /34s and give back the /32? Sure seems like a lot of extra overhead. Perhaps we should give everyone an allocation out of each filter range, so that they can simply number from the appropriately-classed range; when you apply for space, you'd get a /32, a /33, a /34, a /35, a /36, etc. all from the appropriate, statically defined ranges. *removes tongue from cheek*
brandon
Matt