Re: PI space under IPv6

David Meyer <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:31:15 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:42:36PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:38:14PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > >Calling it "PI" or calling it "we open the policy so everybody can get
> > >their own independent address block" is technically pretty much the same.
> > Yes, technically it's called the swamp.
> 
> No.  The swamp is "everybody just gets address space, without clear
> rules who and why".

	You may find that there is not consenus behind this definition.

> People don't (usually) call today's IPv4 PI space "the swamp" either - that's
> reserved for, well, the 192 swamp...

	Right, and that (the 192...) is analogous to what is
	being built for IPv6 as we speak. The salient point is
	that it (PI space) has the potential to be/is
	unaggregatable space. 

	--dmm

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