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Re: Minimum IPv6 size

  • From: James Aldridge
  • Date: Sat Oct 03 04:28:11 2009

--On 2 October 2009 16:43:14 -0700 Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote:
Depends on the address space it is assigned from. Most specify a maximum
prefix length of 32, but the micro-allocations and the allocations for
PI dual-homing are /48.
We consider the following to be "legal":
                /* global unicast allocations */
                route-filter 2001::/16 prefix-length-range /19-/35;
                /* 6to4 prefix */
                route-filter 2002::/16 prefix-length-range /16-/16;
                /* RIPE allocations */
                route-filter 2003::/18 prefix-length-range /19-/32;
                /* APNIC allocations */
                route-filter 2400::/12 prefix-length-range /13-/32;
                /* ARIN allocations */
                route-filter 2600::/12 prefix-length-range /13-/32;
                /* ARIN allocations */
                route-filter 2610::/23 prefix-length-range /24-/32;
                /* LACNIC allocations */
                route-filter 2800::/12 prefix-length-range /13-/32;
                /* RIPE allocations */
                route-filter 2A00::/12 prefix-length-range /13-/32;
                /* AfriNIC allocations */
                route-filter 2C00::/12 prefix-length-range /13-/32;
                /* APNIC PI allocations */
                route-filter 2001:0DF0::/29 prefix-length-range /40-/48;
                /* AFRINIC PI allocations */
                route-filter 2001:43F8::/29 prefix-length-range /40-/48;
                /* ARIN PI allocations */
                route-filter 2620::/23 prefix-length-range /40-/48;
                /* ARIN Micro-allocations */
                route-filter 2001:0500::/24 prefix-length-range /44-/48;

This means accepting prefixes ARIN says we should not, but ARIN does not
set our routing policy and I will be on a panel on that issue at NANOG in
Dearborn later this month.

It might be worth relaxing filtering within 2001::/16. The RIPE NCC appears to be making /48 PI assignments from within 2001:678::/29 (e.g. the RIPE Meeting next week will be using 2001:67c:64::/48)

James






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