<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:27 AM Terry Manderson <<a href="mailto:terry.manderson@icann.org">terry.manderson@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 15/03/2016, 1:39 AM, "Robert Edmonds" <<a href="mailto:edmonds@mycre.ws" target="_blank">edmonds@mycre.ws</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Hi, Terry:<br>
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>I don't think anyone asked this in the thread, but can you talk about<br>
>what the underlying reason is for the re-numbering? Given all the<br>
>operational burdens mentioned above, it sounds like something that<br>
>wouldn't be considered lightly.<br>
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Hi Rob,<br>
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Great question.<br>
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It wasn't considered lightly, there has been considerable time thinking<br>
through this as to what real benefit we (and by "we" I then include all of<br>
the consumers of L-Root) get from it.<br>
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The rationale behind the renumbering is that the current IPv6 prefix,<br>
2001:500:3::/48, comes as a direct minimum assignment. We were unable to<br>
expand that allocation to a /47. What we (and I'm sure others) have<br>
noticed is that ISPs and transit providers filter on allocation<br>
boundaries, and constrain RIBs to the minimum allocation size. So our<br>
reach for doing traffic engineering with a /48 is quite limited, noting<br>
the first step in the BGP route selection state machine is generally the<br>
prefix length.<br>
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The new address (2001:500:9f::42) sits in the prefix 2001:500:9E::/47,<br>
which then allows us to get 'reach' of the more specific 2001:500:9F::/48<br>
for traffic engineering purposes when we need it across the L-Root<br>
constellation on IPv6.<br>
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We do this already on IPv4 using <a href="http://199.7.82.0/23" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">199.7.82.0/23</a> and <a href="http://199.7.83.0/24" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">199.7.83.0/24</a>. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hope this helps.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yup, thanks, it does. Also, thanks Rob for asking, I had also been wondering.</div><div><br></div><div>W</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers<br>
Terry<br>
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