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

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:13:55AM +0100, leo vegoda wrote:
> "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.

I'll recommend against changing this.  Whether or not this *should* 
be routeable is not part of the RIPE policy.

The whole statement is a *warning* - "hey, this network block is special,
and the assignments are smaller.  So it's possible that routing may
not be possible.  You have been warned!".

It doesn't mandate any sort of best practice, and it shouldn't - the
community doesn't know yet what the best practice on prefix filtering 
*is*, so how can a policy document?

Gert Doering
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