Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit

[S.P.Zeidler]

Hi Havard,

Thus wrote Havard Eidnes (he at nordu.net):

> > > Also, most ASs would only announce one prefix instead of the
> > > zoo most keep today.
> >
> > And on this one two. We'll have one prefix per AS (more or
> > less). That will be less prefixes than are announced today for
> > the current autonomous systems.
> 
> Except the desire to do traffic engineering to spread the
> incoming load among multiple upstreams will tend to push people
> into doing de-aggregation of their single prefix, and since we
> have no good tools to limit the distribution of a given prefix

I kind of like Gerds filter :-)
I like even more tightly tailored filters even better, btw, and think they
ought to be used more. </shameless plug> :)

Besides, we don't have routable space in v4 below /24 unless by special
agreement, either, do we?

regards,
	spz
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spz at serpens.de (S.P.Zeidler)