IPv6 assignments to DNS root servers in the RIPE region

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 16:00, Xavier Henner wrote:
> > create an administrative hierarchy based on /48 aggregates but I fully
> > realise that his is going out on a limb. I think however, that if we
> > were to use 'n' TLAs for nameservers, that I would prefer to see 'n'
> > /48s in my routing table than 'n' /35s, this of course from the
> > conservation point of view.
> > 
> > The same holds for Internet Exchanges. Perhaps for other sites as well.
> > How do we plan to have AMS-IX reachable from networks that do not peer
> > with AS1200, if the AMS-IX is assigned only a /48 ? I see two
> > possibilities (obvious ones, that is).
> > 1. Allocate /35 to AMS-IX and let it announce that from AS1200
> > 2. Make global policy to have 2001:7f8::/32 prefixlen 48 and lower
> > allowable.
> 3. http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/registration/ipv6/eix-interim.html
> 
> Or is this document deprecated ?
> 
> IX can have non globally routable adress space.
> The NOC of an IX can have a /48 from any ISP, like any other organization.
> I don't see the problem here.

Like for any other organization the problem here is multihoming but an
additional problem is that as a neutral meeting point for a lot of
ISPs/Carriers, as an Exchange we don't want a special relation with one
of our members/customers and choosing one of them as a provider for
address space and upstream provide does just that


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