On 13.11.2012, at 11:59 , Shane Kerr wrote:
Daniel,
On Tuesday, 2012-11-13 09:36:39 +0100, Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net> wrote:
On 09.11.2012, at 12:05 , Wilfried Woeber wrote:
Overall, I think this is very dangerous approach, and the wrong way to start with.
There might be very good reasons, why a full block of (IPv6) addresses, or a subset of, ist not (yet) globally visible. Announcing/Hijacking those addresses may seriously interfere with local tests or pilot deployment.
IMHO this should be strictly opt-in, instead of opt-out!
Wilfried.
Wilfried, you are right. The agreement I thought we made with Merit was to use unallocated address space. Apparently a misunderstanding occurred somewhere along the way. We will talk to Merit and correct this.
Possibly such experiments should be announced in advance in the future, so that everyone can know what is going on. Ideally a pointer to a web page with full details about the experiment, but at least just a quick mail to the routing working group (and the IPv6 working group in cases where appropriate) seems reasonable.
If this is something that requires a policy change I'd be happy to push it forward.
Cheers,
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ipv6-darknet-experiment