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

[Max Tulyev president@localhost]

Garry Glendown wrote
> 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 ...
>   
I got near hundred of PIs for my clients at almost all RIPE region, and
never hear about any problems with reachability.
So it is just scare tale in fact ;)

> 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 ...
>   
It is very simple: don't ask PI smaller /24 if you want to announce it
worldwide.

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WBR,
Max Tulyev (MT6561-RIPE, 2:463/253@localhost)