[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

kurtis at kurtis.pp.se (Kurt Erik Lindqvist) wrote:

> > Howeverm, the "out of a single block" is the part that really bothers 
> > me. Putting supposedly "critical infrastructure" as it is called 
> > elsewhere in a block that makes them all share fate in the event of 
> > network "optimisations" is still a bad idea.
> 
> Well, this can be argued the otherway around as well. We know that ISPs 
> filter out previously unused space, and that they are not very active 
> in updating those filters when IANA starts allocating out of new 
> blocks. Having all in well-known block would limit that.

Additionally, once someone starts filtering, they will receive much more
pressure than if the block contained only one piece of "critical
infrastructure". As always the coin has two sides :)

Elmar.

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