Hi Andrew, Andrew Alston wrote: > > Very basic concept: > > > > Because you cannot announce anything smaller than a /24 into the global > tables, in order to provide for anycast you need to announce an entire > /24, and in an anycast situation this is announced from multiple asn’s. > AfriNIC’s current v4 policy states that the minimum allocation size on > initial is a /22. To use a /22 for anycast when you potentially are > only using 3 addresses in the block is a huge waste. >
If the minimal allocation is a /22 there is no written rule that one should aggregate and announce the entire /22 it can be de-aggregated to announce a /24 from the allocation for anycast purposes. > > > To my knowledge RIPE also has a policy that allows for this kind of > allocation. > Question would be "who runs anycast and why?.If they form part of the critical infrastructure there is room for them to apply additional /24 for anycasting as per the current AfriNIC IPv4 policy for critical infrastructure. -- Michuki Mwangi KENIC _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
