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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block based to
      delegations based for NIR (Randy Bush)
   2. Re: Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block based to
      delegations based for NIR (Mark Prior)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:20:24 -0800
From: Randy Bush <[email protected]>
To: Gaurav Kansal via sanog <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected],    [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SANOG] Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block
        based to delegations based for NIR
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7

> As per my understanding, it?s like APNIC used to allocate big IPV6
> block to NIR (for further allocation to its members) which has now
> been changed to direct delegations to members instead of NIR.

i will not speak to apnic's political actions, but

> A big block to NIR can help in super netting the v6 announcement at
> NIR (or at country level) , which can help in reducing the routing
> table size in long terms AND can also have IPv6 allocations in
> consecutive order for the economies where we have NIRs.

this is severely broken.  proxy aggregation is routing falsehood and
goes against the use of bgp's abilities to route efficiently in the AS
graph.

randy

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:24:27 +1030
From: Mark Prior <[email protected]>
To: Randy Bush <[email protected]>, Gaurav Kansal via sanog
        <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SANOG] Reg - IPV6 allocation method changes from block
        based to delegations based for NIR
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

On 22/12/21 06:50, Randy Bush via sanog wrote:

>> A big block to NIR can help in super netting the v6 announcement at
>> NIR (or at country level) , which can help in reducing the routing
>> table size in long terms AND can also have IPv6 allocations in
>> consecutive order for the economies where we have NIRs.
> 
> this is severely broken.  proxy aggregation is routing falsehood and
> goes against the use of bgp's abilities to route efficiently in the AS
> graph.

I am surprised that anyone who has done any routing engineering in the 
wild would even consider that this might work.

Mark.


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