Re: IPv6 Allocation Policy

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Organization IBM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Craig A. Huegen" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 21 May 2003, Michel Py wrote:
> 
> > Yep. In the end, a specific announcement being filtered and sending the
> > traffic to a different entry point than it should have results in paying
> > three times transit for the traffic:
> 
> ...keep in mind that this breaks stateful firewalling too, unless state is
> shared across the entire network (which is pretty significant when
> you're talking about passing and replicating messages for every single
> connection out of the network).

And people wonder why we say that state is evil, and distributed state
is more evil. I don't think we should design policy for stateful firewalls. 

I think we're drifting away from the question of what the policy should
say. The point, I think, was to ease the wording to allow for
giving /32s in any case where common sense would allow it.

   Brian
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