Re: PI space under IPv6

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:58:16 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-01-17 17:42, 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".

Gert, I understand that viewpoint, but from the routing system's PoV
large numbers of non-aggregated prefixes are a swamp whatever rules
generated them.

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