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

[Larry Blunk]

On 04/09/2014 11:20 AM, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) wrote:
> 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.
>

  I'm not on the research team, but as far as I'm aware
the tests were part of the same project (the LOA's for
the prefixes ran until the end of 2013).  I'm sure
Manish Karir (mkarir at merit.edu) would be happy to
answer any specific questions you have about the tests.

  Regards,
    Larry Blunk