Re: Documentation Prefix

[Bob Hinden]

Alain,

There are some unanswered questions about this APNIC prefix:
1- Can people who are not member of APNIC use this prefix?

I don't see why not as it isn't supposed to be routed.

2- How do people who are not APNIC members know about this prefix?
    i.e. how an implementor familiar with the RFC series but unaware
    of APNIC documents will know that such a prefix has been reserved?

Good question. I wasn't aware of it until Patrick Grossetete pointed it out to me.

3- What about the other RIRs? Are they going to recommend to use
    this prefix or are they going to reserve some others?

I would hope there would only be one assignment by the RIRs. It would be ironic if after all this time of trying to get a prefix for documentation, we get several :-)

Perhaps a separate very short Informatinal RFC pointing to
a common RIR policy (once/if established) will help.

I will forward you email to Paul Wilson at APNIC. I think that what APNIC did was well intended, it might have been better if the IANA had done the allocation as it is not a regional issue and it might have been better to pick a prefix that was not in the middle of other assignments.

Thanks,
Bob


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