Patrick
At 04:59 PM 06-02-03 -0800, Bob Hinden wrote:
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.Good question. I wasn't aware of it until Patrick Grossetete pointed it out to me.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?
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 :-)3- What about the other RIRs? Are they going to recommend to use this prefix or are they going to reserve some others?
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.Perhaps a separate very short Informatinal RFC pointing to a common RIR policy (once/if established) will help.
Thanks,
Bob
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