[address-policy-wg] Proposal for change to the IPv4 PI allocation policy

Max Tulyev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Gert Doering wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:54:42PM +0000, Max Tulyev wrote:
>>> Another good idea is to remove user scaring story about PI is worse
>>> routeable than PA from RIPE documents.
>> Well - that won't tell the truth.  
>>
>> PI *is* worse to debug if some targets can't be reached (if only because
>> you normally can't run traceroutes from inside customer PI networks).
> 
> But what exactly (versus PA) is worse? Same ping and traceroute, same
> bgp debug, so on.

There is a possibility of people being tight on memory and filtering
something like /24 or /23, and then not being able to reach or be
reached by a /24 PI, because they also neglected to have a default route
to their uplink ... Apart from that, I have not been informed of any
problems with /24 or larger PI networks ...

But then, RIPE policies would allow for (or even enforce) PI networks
smaller than /24 to be assigned - which will most likely NOT be
reachable from the Internet ...

-gg