[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
>   In a perfect world - yes.
>
>   But "per default" when you announce something in v6-world, you are
>   "supposed" to announce a /32 (or maybe a /35) _and_ filter anything that
>   is longer than that.
>
>   I really don't see any benefit from adding complexity again, other than
>   clinging to the well-worn conservatiopn goal from IPv4.

This is a myth that is hard to kill. There are already today valid, RIR
assignments that are /48s. If you where to do what you state above, you
have already missed out a part of the IPv6 Internet and there is not much
to do. The "filter on /32" comes from some belife that that would be the
longest assigned or allocated prefixes. That is not true, and the policy
proposed would add to that.

I have a hard time seeing what harm consvertaion does and what complexity
it would add?

- kurtis -