[101194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Fri Dec 21 22:23:03 2007
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:18:02 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <476C6C08.5020806@psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
> logic chains which begin with
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> > Now I think there is a chance that
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> may not be the best way to do engineering. there is a 'chance that'
> just about anything.
Sure, the Sun could explode tomorrow and all these IPv6 people will have
wasted their lives.
However the scenario is a common one and the timetable is well within the
time period when IPv6 will be the main network technology (say 2015 - 2035+)
so it should have been taken into account and judging on the fact that
IPv6 *does* support billions of nodes and thousands of networks to every
end site I guess it probably was.
Making engineering decisions on the basis of "there is no chance" that
is risky too, especially looking 40+ years into the future.
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