Re: PI space under IPv6
Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:58:16 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.apnic.global-v6 |
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| 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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