[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Dedicated IPv4 block to facilitate IPv6 deployment

[Martin Hannigan]

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com>
To: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Dedicated IPv4
block to facilitate IPv6 deployment
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:38:59 +0000

> > > I would suggest that this policy could be improved by
> > > instead focusing it's resource requirement on
> > utilizing those fragments. >
> > > -M<
> > 
> > Marty, I agree with you but the common argument against
> > using those small non-contiguous blocks is that they
> > won't be from a recognizable range that can be used in
> > filters. 
> > ----CJ
> 
> last time i asked routing people about it, prefix length
> filters were passe.
> 
> but even if not, is routeability a reasonable
> consideration for arin policy? (if arin starts allocating
> these, it'd just end up killing whatever prefix length
> filters still exist, if any.)

The policy proposal itself inferred that < /24 was ok to
allocate.

Expecting a set aside of the last /8 is unreasonable. 

-M<