[ppml] IPv6 PI to legacy IPv4 holders

William Herrin arin-contact at dirtside.com
Thu Oct 18 13:16:20 EDT 2007


To clarify:

64512 - 65534 Designated for private use

and in Cisco IOS the private AS is stripped before propagation to the
Internet with:

neighbor x.x.x.x remove-private-AS

Regards,
Bill Herrin

On 10/18/07, William Herrin <arin-contact at dirtside.com> wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Its possible (and in some cases preferred) for small orgs to use a
> private ASN and let the the service provider strip it before
> propagating the announcement. I forget the exact numbers but its in
> the 64000/65000 range. This is one of the sources of "inconsistent
> ASes" in the routing table.
>
> Requiring the assignment of an ASN would burn ASNs unnecessarily in this case.
>
> Regards,
> Biill Herrin
>
>
>
> On 10/18/07, briand at ca.afilias.info <briand at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> > I propose adding one additional condition under which an organization
> > would be eligible for receiving an IPv6 PI allocation from ARIN:
> >
> > The organization currently has been assigned an ASN and is actively using it.
>
> --
> William D. Herrin                  herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us
> 3005 Crane Dr.                        Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/>
> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
>


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William D. Herrin                  herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us
3005 Crane Dr.                        Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/>
Falls Church, VA 22042-3004



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