[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] RE: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!

Hi Gert,

Having lived in Europe for most of my life, EU is not a country, rather
a collection of countries. I'm not sure if it is just standard practice
to list the European country under "EU", but wouldn't it be better to
have "ES" for Espania?

Just being picky.

Kind regards,

Jason Everard
SANS Certified, CISSP, CCIE Security
Senior Technical Consultant
Network & Security Design
Telecom Advanced Solutions
Telecom New Zealand
Tel: +64-9-363-3002 ext: 93002
Mobile: +64-27-478-3931 

-----Original Message-----
From: 6bone-bounces at mailman.isi.edu
[mailto:6bone-bounces at mailman.isi.edu] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 3:57 a.m.
To: 6bone at ISI.EDU; ipv6-wg at ripe.net
Subject: [6bone] /20 allocated - update your BGP filters!


Hi,

the first IPv6 /20 allocation ever has been made today:

inet6num:     2001:2000::/20
netname:      EU-TELIANET-20040510
org:          ORG-TIC2-RIPE
descr:        PROVIDER Local Registry
descr:        TeliaSonera AB
country:      EU

and this means that "if you have been following my filtering
recommendations, this network will not be accepted right now" (the 
current filters had a minimum accepted prefix length of a /24).

I have updated the prefix filter recommendation page:

http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html

and urge you to check whether your filters are prepared for these
large prefixes.  (There is a /23 upcoming, and rumors speak of a
/19 being requested "real soon now").

TODO: the "strict" filter could do some grouping for different 
      IPv6 allocation ranges, but this is dangerous today, as we 
      don't know how future allocations will look like.

Note: ICANN just doesn't get it.  They have not allocated a reasonable 
      prefix size to RIPE (like a /8), not even a /19, but "a big chunk
of 
      14 sucessive /23s, summing up to a /20+/21+/22" - see the list at
      http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments


Gert Doering
        -- RIPE Address Policy WG Co-Chair,
           keeper of the IPv6 filter list
-- 
Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations:  60210
(58081)

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