It's not a bad proposal - there was a great discussion before. Arin has implemented this in their IP policy and it's been working great FOR YEARS. No wonder why we have moved two clients to Arin IP space (infrastructure end) because we were unable to meet Ripe policy requirements. You cannot get a /24 for anycast from Ripe if you cannot meet IP usage requirements, except if you are a ctld (they call it "critical infrastructure" - I don't). Why you didn't oppose "<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2008-05.html>Anycasting Assignments for TLDs and Tier 0/1 ENUM" policy that allows ctld operators now to use 4x /24 for DNS anycast? It just got accepted... If you are filtering /24 routes you are filtering out "critical internet infrastructure"... hehe ;) Greg At 00:33 2009.07.17.ΓΏ, you wrote:
I've ran across a couple of networks who filter on /23, in fact I did it myself for a while while we were waiting for an upgrade. So the /24 is just as arbitrary as any other range.
I ain't gonna see this one fly, what people will accept for routing as their business and shouldn't influence allocation or assignment policy. In fact during last meeting there was quite some debate about the fact all references to routing and/or filtering policy should be removed from address policy documents.
RIPE and or RIPE NCC will never guarantee routabillity for any address range, adjusting the policy to allow a /24 just to get passed some filters implies you get routed.
This is a bad proposal, completely going into the wrong direction and I won't support it, it should have been dropped years ago instead of keeping it sleeping.
Grtx,
MarcoH
On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:
Members,
I'd like to re-open the discussion for http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2006-05.html which is still pending approval.
In the current IPv4 address policy, routability on the internet is not a factor that is allowed to be taken into account when a PI space is requested. Yet anything smaller then a /24 is pretty much useless since most providers filter anything below /24 out.
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