I almost forgot to mention one important IPv6 development in the Asia Pacific Region. APNIC 34 made a decision to allow portable IPv6 address (Provider Indepedent) blocks be allocated to applicants without using multi-homed configuration. Many companies can have their own /48 address block and they need not change their network configurations when changing serving ISP. There is an argument that such arrangement would result in a large number of fragmented /48 blocks in the global routing table. The design of IPv6 is to have routes in terms of /32. Hey, routers' performance are not really affected by large routing table. Who care ? We should consider the benefits to end users instead of giving less loading to equipment.
APNIC is the only RIR that waives the requirement of multi-homing in allocation of Provider Independent IPv6 address block. Seems that the Asia Pacific region is moving faster than other regions.
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