Hi, On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 10:54:42PM +0000, Patterson, Richard (Senior IP Architect) via address-policy-wg wrote:
I thought the general feeling previously (at and around RIPE 89) was that this approach was an easy quick win and worth doing, as it doesn't preclude any additional proposals to fix the underlying problem(s) properly.
I also thought that increasing the default from 29 to 28 was fairly non-contentious because it is already sparsely allocated as a 28, so it's effectively no-impact to consumption anyway. Perhaps a naive view of things on my part.
All the allocations made when the default size was /35 or /32 came from a reserved /29. So not everything can grow to a /28 "just so". On the proposal itself, I could care less, tbh. The argument "because DNS" is about as weak as it was in version 1 (aka "if you know your tools, it does not make a difference, and if not, it will not help"). OTOH the extra waste induced by making things larger every few years is also tolerable in the grand scheme of things. So I'm just "don't care" on this. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Karin Schuler, Sebastian Cler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279