Some hours ago Iljitsch van Beijnum posted
an email
with the above subject to the RIPE Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP)
mailing list.
Therein he describes the growing issue of (IPv6 prefix) deaggregation
desires/approaches by certain organizations vs. the filtering practices of other
organizations (providers). I touched this problem, from an enterprise’s
perspective, some time ago in the
second part
of my blog post series on
IPv6 address planning.
Given we think that the discussion is heavily needed from several angles, I
had actually submitted a talk on the topic twice (for the RIPE meeting in Warsaw
in May and the upcoming one in London) which was unfortunately rejected at both
occasions.
I’m hence very happy to see that a dialogue about the inherent dilemma might be
started by Iljitsch’s mail. As a contribution to the development of a BCOP
document I will hereby publish
our draft slides
of the talk which was initially planned. Furthermore two fellow IPv6
practitioners (Hi Roland & Nico!) and I plan to release a detailed paper with
research results as for IPv6 prefix distribution at major European IXs in the
near future.
Let’s hope that we as the IPv6 community can reach some consensus in this space
soon. See you in London,
have a good one everybody
Enno