[routing-wg] MERIT Darknet Experiment and RPKI alerts

Daniel,

On Tuesday, 2012-11-13 09:36:39 +0100, 
Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> On 09.11.2012, at 12:05 , Wilfried Woeber wrote:
> 
> > Overall, I think this is very dangerous approach, and the wrong way
> > to start with.
> > 
> > There might be very good reasons, why a full block of (IPv6)
> > addresses, or a subset of, ist not (yet) globally visible.
> > Announcing/Hijacking those addresses may seriously interfere with
> > local tests or pilot deployment.
> > 
> > IMHO this should be strictly opt-in, instead of opt-out!
> > 
> > Wilfried.
> 
> Wilfried, you are right. The agreement I thought we made with Merit
> was to use unallocated address space. Apparently a misunderstanding
> occurred somewhere along the way. We will talk to Merit and correct
> this.

Possibly such experiments should be announced in advance in the future,
so that everyone can know what is going on. Ideally a pointer to a web
page with full details about the experiment, but at least just a quick
mail to the routing working group (and the IPv6 working group in
cases where appropriate) seems reasonable.

If this is something that requires a policy change I'd be happy to push
it forward.

Cheers,

--
Shane