[ppml] alternative realities (was PIv6 for legacy holders (/wRSA + efficient use))
Paul Vixie
paul at vix.com
Tue Jul 31 18:44:14 EDT 2007
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> In case you missed the point, the dialup is a ruse. What they're > really renting is /24's for $50/mo with a catchall tunnel just in case > someone decides to obstinately filter the long prefixes. ... > The community overall loses with upwards of 65k new routes slammed > into the IPv4 DFZ. can each extant enterprise /8 be carved up into 64K /24's without exploding the global routing table / default free zone / internet core? ruse or not, if it makes things break all over, then filtering won't just be obstinate. > Policies violated? None. No global policy defines MIT's use of that > /8. They're not even a legacy registrant under ARIN; the in-addr.arpa > delagation comes from further upstream. > > Yeah, okay, so its a little far fetched to think that MIT would do > anything quite so crass. But they're not the only ones sitting on a > /8. i agree that if there's no attempt to treat ip addresses as property, or the right to use an ip address as if it were a dark fibre IRU, then current policy would seem to support this activity. it's just another kind of "connection" as in "connected devices".
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