[101116] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: European ISP enables IPv6 for all?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Dec 18 06:51:47 2007
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:51:12 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: JAKO Andras <jako.andras@eik.bme.hu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0712181220250.23656@mono>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007, JAKO Andras wrote:
>
> > doesn't more address space just give us more routes to handle?
>
> No. It only makes more possible prefixes. Migrating to IPv6 while keeping
> the current (IPv4) routing and current business relations, there would be
> somewhat less routes:
>
> bigger address space -> bigger chunks -> less need to incrementally add
> prefixes to the same place -> less prefixes
You mean "more address space" -> "individual businesses want to multihome
and are willing to pay for their own space" -> more prefixes.
Adrian
