[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] IPv6 access to K-root

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:55:10PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> And it's extremely wasteful to use 2^96 addresses when only 1 is needed.

That's because of people's lazy and stupid habit of derriving policy
from prefix length (exceeding the valid conclusions from the IPv6
architecture documents). I would have preferred the ARIN way of using
/48s (end site size). Unfortunately still many people think (or just
copied some random filter recommendation) that filtering ANY /48 is a
good thing, and don't update filters.


Regards,
Dan'overly aggressive filtering considered harmful'iel

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