[ppml] [address-policy-wg] Those pesky ULAs again

Per Heldal heldal at eml.cc
Wed May 30 04:33:49 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:08 -0700, David Williamson wrote:
> I wasn't going to post again today to this list, but I cannot let
> blatantly incorrect statements go by.  PI is not hard to get, although
> your experience may vary by region.  My org holds a PI /48, and it
> took me 2 days of duration and ten minutes of effort to receive it.
> That's nearly trivial, in my book.

If you want to endorse PI for "private" use please also consider that it
leaves blocks wide open to abuse. Separate ULA-C space can easily be
filtered, but how do you easily prevent hijacking of unannounced
PI-prefixes should such private blocks become as commonplace as
rfc1918-space? 

//per




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