[AusNOG] Report on 1/8 traffic

[Terry Manderson]

I'm beginning to wonder if the value of stretching the IPv4 horizon by allocating _anything_ from 1/8 is appropriate given that any use apart from proxy mediated PCs/Customers will bring a load on the entity that receives such an allocation.

The report is fascinating, and predominately highlights duplicate use and the effects of the default route scenario. What it doesn't cover, and I think will be more of a worry over time are the various and many acls, route shunts, bgo filters in place which I think will take something more than a decade to rectify.

Maybe 1/8 should just be put on ice(*) or amalgamated to RFC1918 given its obvious (incorrect) operational use.

(*) For some period of time where the ice will slowly melt.

Cheers
Terry

On 08/04/2010, at 1:24 PM, Narelle wrote:

> Am I missing something, is there really no analysis of where the
> traffic is coming from?
> 
> Fascinating. That's pretty high, and the impact on smaller APNIC
> region ISPs and organisations could be significant, considering out
> backhaul and international bandwidth costs.
> 
> They should be applauded for doing the study, and then taking the
> action to reserve the address ranges experiencing > than background
> loads.
> 
> 
> Nice one
> 
> 
> Narelle
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Terry Manderson <terry at terrym.net> wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> For those of you not on the 'apnic-talk' mailing list I thought I would direct your attention to this thread:
>> 
>> http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/2010/04/msg00002.html
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Terry
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