[ipv6-wg] [routing-wg] MERIT Darknet Experiment and RPKI alerts

On 13.11.2012, at 11:59 , Shane Kerr wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> On Tuesday, 2012-11-13 09:36:39 +0100, 
> Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg at ripe.net> wrote:
>> 
>> On 09.11.2012, at 12:05 , Wilfried Woeber wrote:
>> 
>>> Overall, I think this is very dangerous approach, and the wrong way
>>> to start with.
>>> 
>>> There might be very good reasons, why a full block of (IPv6)
>>> addresses, or a subset of, ist not (yet) globally visible.
>>> Announcing/Hijacking those addresses may seriously interfere with
>>> local tests or pilot deployment.
>>> 
>>> IMHO this should be strictly opt-in, instead of opt-out!
>>> 
>>> Wilfried.
>> 
>> Wilfried, you are right. The agreement I thought we made with Merit
>> was to use unallocated address space. Apparently a misunderstanding
>> occurred somewhere along the way. We will talk to Merit and correct
>> this.
> 
> Possibly such experiments should be announced in advance in the future,
> so that everyone can know what is going on. Ideally a pointer to a web
> page with full details about the experiment, but at least just a quick
> mail to the routing working group (and the IPv6 working group in
> cases where appropriate) seems reasonable.
> 
> If this is something that requires a policy change I'd be happy to push
> it forward.
> 
> Cheers,

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