[ppml] APNIC policy proposal to create a regulated market in IPv4 addresses

Paul Vixie paul at vix.com
Mon Aug 6 12:20:54 EDT 2007


> > Also, does anyone believe ISPs are going to remove the filters that  
> > implicitly limit the length of a usable (for the purposes of highest  
> > likelihood of global routability) IPv4 prefix to a /24?  If so, why?
> 
> I hope not, and if subdivision/deaggregation gets bad enough we will see 
> filters tighten.  In a worst case scenario we filter at /20 across
> the board  and anyone using longer prefix gets to move.

what would you have f.root-servers.org do in that case?  our IPv4 address
is in a /24, and our IPv6 address is in a /48.  even apart from the question
of how long it takes to renumber a root name server, where would you like us
to move?  we have other address blocks but those other blocks aren't anycast.

paul

ps. not speaking as an arin trustee.



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