[101418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Thu Jan 3 10:44:18 2008
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:41:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080103143601.GA1334640@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Do you really think that today's allocations are going to be in use
> (unchanged) when people are building homes out of IPv6-addressed
> nanobots, or when people are trying to firewall the fridge from the TV
> remote, etc.?
I certainly hope not- but then again I never thought IPv4 would be around
this long either.
> I understand trying to plan for the future, but if
> someone is setting all this stuff up, getting a new (and larger) IPv6
> block from their ISP is going to be the easiest part in the process.
You're right of course.
> Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? Why not /52 or /60? /60 is
> not much bigger than /64, but /52 gives an end-site 16 times as many
> subnets as /56 while giving the ISP 16 times as many blocks as /48.
Because byte alignment makes for shortcuts in routing softare/hardware
allowing higher speeds? Because ARIN says so? :)
-Don
