CloudFlare IPv6 BGP announcements - WTF guys?

[Oliver]

On Monday 16 July 2012 21:15:17 Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:45:43PM +0200, Oliver wrote:
> > The whole thing is daft; even if you've got multiple upstreams, there's
> > still *nothing* preventing you from exposing only your /32 to the rest of
> > the internet and tagging more specifics with NO_EXPORT to each of your
> > upstreams.
>
> Not having a backbone pretty effectively does.

...Which would fall under the second paragraph of my previous e-mail regarding 
the need for a particular subnet's traffic to go via a particular upstream.

> 
> > If your modus operandi is to pollute the routing tables, you deserve all
> > the unreachability you get.
> 
> Wether you see /32 PA more-specifics from all the CDN nodes, or PI /48s
> doesn't make a difference at all, technically.

I'd have hoped this was self-evident and serves to highlight the fact that the 
protection against such abuse is down to RIR policies governing eligibility 
for PI space.

Regards,
Oliver