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 -