Pinging RIPE

[Nick Hilliard]

On 25/11/2009 14:38, David Conrad wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why?

at least:

- political neutrality: ripes current v6 address space is allocated to 
nl.surfnet and from a political neutrality point of view, some people may 
have a problem with this (personally, I don't, but there's always the 1% of 
people)
- reannouncement of some other ASN's address space: this space is highly 
likely to to be filtered out using rir-aligned bogon filters, potentially 
causing connectivity problems for RIPE
- reachability: RIPE have had consistent reachability problems with this 
address block due to weird academic / commercial ipv6 prefix filtering 
arrangements in east asia.

The RIPE NCC now has its own LIR (eu.ripencc, create by policy mandate), 
and as it is a politically independent entity with its own routing and 
address assignment requirements, it probably makes more sense for it to 
manage its own address space.

Nick