> On Dec 20, 2023, at 03:40, Christopher Hawker <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> My problem still lies with the community not accepting prefixes longer than >>> a /24 for global routability. We can't prevent IXPs with prefixes longer >>> than a /24 from routing their prefixes, when those with shorter than or >>> equal to a /24 can. It's either all can, or none can. >> My problem is with the whole idea that RIRs should be issuing IPv4 prefixes >> longer than /24 in a misguided effort to extend the “useful” life of IPv4. > > I don't believe it's misguided at all. There is no technical or policy-based > reason as to why longer prefixes cannot be delegated or routed. Back in the > AUNIC and early APNIC days, much shorter delegations were being made, when > exhaustion wasn't thought about (or at least considered), and this was the > norm. Why can /25 prefixes not be considered the new norm for resource > delegations?
Longer prefixes are misguided for a number of reasons, but I was’t referring to that. I was calling the idea of deluding ourselves into believing that the useful lifetime of IPv4 can be extended by these ever increasing extreme measures misguided. >>>> RIRs should not be in the business of dictating routing policy to anyone. >>> APNIC does not "dictate" how we can and cannot route resources, the >>> community defines policy (see the PDP). APNIC simply facilitates this >>> process. >> Permit me to rephrase… >> Routing Policy should be out of scope for RIR policies. > > Again, members define policy (be it a routing policy or otherwise). If a > community member presents a policy about the routability of prefixes longer > than a /24 at an open policy meeting and it reaches consensus with the wider > community, why should we not accept it? RIRs do so much more than just > administering addresses and if that's all they did, I believe the internet > would not be the way that it is today. Well, at least in the ARIN region, there is a concept of scope of the PDP and policy proposals which are out of scope are rejected out of hand. YMMV. Owen _______________________________________________ SIG-policy - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
