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I’m a Team ARIN guest blogger! =) My guest post is on BCOP and talks about the origins, the goals, and how you can get involved. BCOP stands for Best Current Operational Practice and the primary goal of the BCOP project is to create “a living library for network engineers by network engineers.” As I [...]
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The following draft policies are currently on the AC’s docket and will be discussed at ARIN XXIX in Vancouver.
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An update on policy changes that are no longer under discussion, because they have been adopted by the ARIN Board and implemented by ARIN staff. While these policies will not be discussed at ARIN XXIX, they are important to understand for two reasons. First, they have altered the ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM) which may affect your next interaction with ARIN. Second, they provide some background and history on the current policy debates. You may be able to glean a sense of where the ARIN community’s focus is (or at least has most recently been) by understanding the policy changes which have made it through to adoption following the previous PPM.
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This year’s summit is the North American (rather than Rocky Mountain) IPv6 Summit and it will again be the largest IPv6 event in North America, even bigger than last year. There’s a long line up of fantastic speakers and over 500 IPv6 networking professionals expected to be in attendance. Plus, I’m presenting something on all three days!
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At long last, there is a shared transition space available for all who need it: 100.64.0.0/10 The whois comments provide a brief explanation of this new block: This block is used as Shared Address Space. [...] Shared Address Space can only be used in Service Provider networks or on routing equipment that is able to [...]
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This is a horror story. Lucky for you, it comes with a happy ending. I gave a lightning talk on CGN logging at NANOG 54 in San Diego which started with those very words. The abstract lays out the high points: Per-connection logging is one of the major hurdles when deploying a CGN system in [...]
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In this final installment of the don’t panic series “Introducing IPv6,” you will learn about Neighbor Discovery and Stateless Address AutoConfiguration.
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The beauty of the IPv6 header is that it has been streamlined and contains only those pieces of information that are necessary on every IPv6 packet. All optional IP information is encoded in extension headers, which are added to packets between the standard IPv6 header and the upper-layer header.
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