[AusNOG] another ipv6 Q

[Geordie Guy]

How does splitting up a /32 amongst members of a professional body spam the
tables any more than those members getting distinct PI blocks from LIRs?


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote:

> On 2014-07-02 23:41, Robert Hudson wrote:
> >     > So whats the min mask length.  So it I wanted to multihome would I
> be
> >     > okay with 1 /48 or will up streams take /49-64 ?
> >
> >     /48 is the accepted minimum.
> >
> >
> > Which is why SAGE-AU settled on offering an IPv6 /48 to every member
> > (and yes, this does mean that as a business, if all you want is an IPv6
> > /48, you can get a completely portable /48 allocation from SAGE-AU for
> > $165 a year instead of paying the APNIC membership fee if the member you
> > pay for agrees to utilise the allocation for your business purposes).
>
> Quick check:
>
> inet6num:       2406:C500::/32
> netname:        TSAGOA
> descr:          The System Administrators Guild of Australia
> country:        AU
>
> That is a single /32, out of the PA block of APNIC. Hence, unless you
> convince every single ISP in the world to accept it, the only thing you
> can announce is that /32, nothing else.
>
> More specifics will properly be dropped.
>
> Please don't spam the BGP tables with more specifics. If you need PI, go
> get a distinct PI block for that site from your favourite LIR.
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>
>
> Oh and yes, it will be a lot of fun when some large company is going to
> split and then have to split up their IPv6 address space, somebody will
> be renumbering a lot of hosts... ;)
>
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