[ARIN-consult] Consultation on New Experimental Allocation

[John Springer]

I support the use of this reserved space for this experiment because I 
think the information derived will be useful regardless of what is 
learned.

What is the timeframe of the experiment?

John Springer

On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, ARIN wrote:

> ARIN is soliciting community input on a proposed experiment that will
> require the temporary use of space from 23.128.0.0/10, the IPv4
> addresses reserved to facilitate IPv6 deployment. (see NRPM policy 4.10
> https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#four10 )
>
> There has been much discussion on the NANOG mailing list about the
> usability / routability of prefixes longer than a /24. In order to try
> to provide some additional data on this topic, the RIPE NCC has
> requested a small block of address space from the reserved /10 in order
> to run the following experiment:
>
> RIPE Routing Information System (RIS) plans to announce a few blocks of
> sizes /24 to /28 (no more then ten at a time) out of the 23.128/10. They
> will monitor how this address space propagates in BGP and its reachability.
>
>   *  This experiment will provide the global community with insight on
> whether prefixes longer than a /24 from 23.128/10 are useable and
> reachable on the global Internet.
>
>   *  A description of this experiment, as well as the results of this
> research, will be published on https://labs.ripe.net/ . Additionally,
> ARIN will provide a link to the RIPE Labs page, as well as the end date
> of this experiment in the public Whois record of this registration.
>
> Do you support the use of this reserved space for this experiment or
> not, and why? Please provide comments to arin-consult at arin.net.
>
> This consultation will remain open through 5:00 PM EDT on Monday, 1
> September 2014.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leslie Nobile
> Director of Registration Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>
>
>
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