On 2012-03-09 10:02 , Jeff Wheeler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:
if you know anyone who is filtering /48 , you can start telling them to STOP doing so as a good citizen of internet6.
I had a bit of off-list discussion about this topic, and I was not going to bring it up today on-list, but since the other point of view is already there, I may as well.
Unless you are going to pay the bill for my clients to upgrade their 3BXL/3CXL systems (and similar) to XXL and then XXXL, I think we need to do two things before IPv6 up-take is really broad:
1) absolutely must drop /48 de-aggregates from ISP blocks
See the strict filter at: http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html which has been proposed for quite a long time already. Also note the existence of this awesome thing called RPSL. See also this great presentation by ras: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/presentations/Tuesday/RAS_irrdata_N44.... and the very recent column by Geoff Huston: http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-03/leaks.html
2) absolutely must make RIR policy so orgs can get /48s for anycasting, and whatever other purposes
One can already receive those easily, generally as a /48. Also, quite a few organizations are requesting disjunct /32's per country or at least a /32 per region.... Greets, Jeroen