[AusNOG] IPv6: Vocus connects to the 'Other' side of the Australian Internet via IPv6 within Australia.

[Joshua D'Alton]

With all these /48s flying around being announced by various people,
who/what is controlling legit announcing? Unless I'm missing something RADB
doesn't seem anywhere near as up to date (well done Mark for keeping
Internodes' up to date).?


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

>
> On Aug 22, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > So I guess the general consensus is that we’re going to take IPv6
> seriously in this country after all?
>
> I thought we already were.
>
> To anyone who wants to dip their toe in the water:  SAGE-AU is just
> getting started with
> a scheme whereby they'll provide an LOA for a /48 assignment out of
> 2406:c500::/32 to
> each and every member, so they can announce it as they see fit.
>
> /48's are likely to be accepted more or less everywhere.  If you're a
> network operator and
> you're not accepting them, have a good hard look at yourself and ask why.
>
> If you're an Australian ISP with IPv6 capabilities and SAGE-AU members as
> customers,
> you can probably expect to start seeing requests for prefix announcements
> "soon."  Use
> it as an opportunity to get your technology and processes sorted out in
> cooperation with
> a pool of tech-savvy willing-victim experimental customers who might not
> mind the odd
> bit of missing around if you happen to break something during a change.
>
> If you're an Internode user with a Business pack, they should be able to
> route your /48 in
> addition to the 2001:44b8: prefix they provide with the service, so you'll
> be able to see
> how the world looks in a world where your machines stateless-autoconfig on
> multiple
> prefixes.  If non-Internode ISPs can offer feature-parity or
> feature-superiority with that,
> that'll be just grand :-)
>
> Come on in, the water is fine.
>
>   - mark
>
>
>
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