Yet another Merit (ASN 237) IPv6 Darknet in the last months?

[Bill Owens]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 02:30:53PM +0000, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
>    I know that Merit run an IPv6 darknet in 2012, but, but looking
>    at http://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/plotbgp.php?country= (showing the
>    amount of not aggregated announced prefixes based on route views.org data)
>    it appears that ASN 237 had announced 2600::/12, 2800::/12, ... From
>    2013-10-28 to 2014-01-28.
>    Was there any announcement of this? I googled without success :-(
>    Thanks in advance for any pointer

Three pointers - the paper: http://www.merit.edu/research/pdf/2013/ipv6_darknet_paper_r6098.pdf

the talk about it: https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/12-feb-2014.webcast.karir.understanding.ipv6-internet-radiation.mp4

and the resulting controversy: http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2014-March/028030.html

Bill.