[ppml] /48 vs /32 micro allocations

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:02:13PM +0000, Andrew Dul wrote:
> -------Original Message-------
> > From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ppml] /48 vs /32 micro allocations
> > Sent: 14 Mar 2005 23:52:05
> >
> >  I can think of at least one...
> >  The greater the sparsity of address utilization, the easier
> >  it is to hijack portions of the address space.  That, in and of itself,
> >  to me seems like a good reason NOT to pursue a sparse allocation policy.
> >  
> >  Owen
> >  --
> 
> True, however...  I'm hoping that the IETF rpsec working group is able to come up with a solution to authenticate & authorize BGP announcements.  Having those in place would make hijacking more difficult.

	Annie Lenox did a fine cover of "Train in Vain"...
	I hope that your hope will not be in vain... rpsec
	has -miles- to go before its operationaly feasable.
	IMHO of course.

--bill
> 
> Andrew