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

[Eric Vyncke (evyncke)]

Bill 

Thanks for the paper pointers but this paper is about the experiment in
2012/2013 while I was rather referring to another wide scale test in
2013/2014. I knew about the former but not the latter

-éric

On 9/04/14 17:04, "Bill Owens" <owens at nysernet.org> wrote:

>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.unders
>tanding.ipv6-internet-radiation.mp4
>
>and the resulting controversy:
>http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2014-March/028030.html
>
>Bill.