In message <384BF687-AD8A-4919-9EAB-723A09854E0D@puck.nether.net>, Jared Mauch writes:
On Jan 30, 2014, at 12:17 AM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
Or you could just accept that there needs to be more routing slots as the number of businesses on the net increases. I can see some interesting anti-cartel law suits happening if ISP's refuse to accept /28's from this block.
i suspect it will be more sean doran style 'pay me for your slot'.
A /8 slot costs as much as a /28 slot to hold process etc. A routing slot is a routing slot. The *only* reason this isn't a legal problems at the moment is people can still get /24s. The moment /24's aren't readily available and they are forced into using this range anyone filtering on /24 in this range is leaving themselves open to lawsuits. Now as this range is allocated for transition to IPv6 a defence for edge networks may be "we can reach all their services over IPv6" but that doesn't work for transit providers. Eyeball networks would need to ensure that all their customers had access to IPv6 and even that may not be enough. This range adds a maximum of 245760 (2^18-2^14) routes to the global routing table. Do you really want to go to court for this many routes? Mark -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org