[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: /48 micro allocations for v6 root servers, was: national security

Hi Jeroen,

Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:

[...]

>"2001:07FA::/32 is used to make APNIC assignments to Internet Exchange
>Points (IXPs). These assignments are not intended to be announced to
>the global Internet."
>
>Good to see that APNIC states that IXP assignments should not be
>seen on the internet. It is not seen in GRH, so that matches up.
>This is unlike the RIPE IXP allocations though, these are visible
>all around the world.

The "IPv6 Address Space Policy for Internet Exchange Points" document
at:

   <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-policy-ixp.html>

has the following section:

"4.0 Warning

Networks assigned under this policy may not be globally routable."

People may want to change the warning from "may not be globally
routable" to "should not be globally routable" (or another choice of
words). If so, we're happy to publish an updated document with whatever
wording the community reaches consensus on.

Kind regards,

-- 
leo vegoda
RIPE NCC
Registration Services Manager