<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Mark Mahle <<a href="mailto:mm@VR.ORG">mm@VR.ORG</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>XS4ALL strict IPv6 filtering </b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">30 August 2011 13:19:54 GMT+01:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:noc@xs4all.nl">noc@xs4all.nl</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:peering@xs4all.nl">peering@xs4all.nl</a>, Owen Delong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:webmaster@python.org">webmaster@python.org</a>, <a href="mailto:gert@Space.Net">gert@Space.Net</a>, <a href="mailto:dang@goscomb.net">dang@goscomb.net</a><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello XS4All Noc,<div><br></div><div>We are Host Virtual, a cloud provider that provides dual-stack IPv4+IPv6 services worldwide in 10 locations via AS36236 and AS42210.</div><div><br></div><div>It has come to our attention that customers in any of our three EU locations, using our RIPE assigned ip space (2a00:dd80::/32) are unable to access the XS4all network, including sites such as <a href="http://www.python.org/">www.python.org</a>. We announce at a minimum, a /48 from each location as per generally accepted standards for IPv6 routability.</div><div><br></div><div>In previous communication with our peers, we've learned that XS4ALL filters its IPv6 traffic based on the strict case at <a href="http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html">http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html</a> published by Gert Döring. </div><div><br></div><div>While we understand and appreciate there has been much discussion on the topic we feel this type of strict filtering, based on rules published and not updated over 3 years ago are now negatively impacting both XS4ALL's own customers, and the end users of high profile sites such as <a href="http://www.python.org/">www.python.org</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Being a supporter of many open source projects ourselves, and a strong supporter of moving IPv6 forward we appeal to you to review this policy. With IPv6 adoption now accelerating it's in all of our best interests to ensure IPv6 routability.</div><div><br></div><div>I appreciate your attention and review of this policy and have included relevant parties on the CC.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">--<br>Mark Mahle<br>+1-877-HOSTED7 x201 :: <a href="http://www.hostvirtual.com/">http://www.hostvirtual.com</a></span></div></span></div>
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