[114300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue May 5 17:58:22 2009
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 16:58:07 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.utg5m2nctfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Ricky Beam wrote:
> 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!
So ask the IETF to drop it to generic 32bits. I presume they can draw up
mathematical formulas to show that 32 bits can autogen and avoid a
conflict with the maximum number of IPs likely to be found on a segment
without having to do excessive DAD requests. Of course, they'll have to
obsolete the 64 bit model and I suspect the vendors will complain about it.
Jack
