[114295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue May 5 16:53:32 2009
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:53:16 -0400
To: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A009DD1.4060604@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 05 May 2009 16:13:05 -0400, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
> Actually, they probably would have stuck to a 64 bit address space and
> it was debated. Then it came down to, let's make it a 64 bit network
> space, and give another 64 bits for hosts (96 bits probably would have
> worked, but someone apparently feels the next bump from 64bit is 128bit
> so there we go).
Ah, but they half-assed the solution. IPv6 makes no distinction between
network and host (eg. "classless"), yet SLAAC forces this oddball,
classful boundry. Routing doesn't care. Even the hosts don't care. Only
the tiny craplet of autoconfig demands the network and host each be
64bits. That's brilliant!
