[117883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Mon Oct 5 20:02:46 2009
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:01:44 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov
In-Reply-To: <OFE032105D.4243EF78-ON85257646.0080C88E-85257646.00821BD9@frbog.frb.gov>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov wrote:
> The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see
> any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider
A lesson learned is that thinking about address allocation is something
you do not want to spend too many precious seconds of your life on.
That's one reason why the space was designed to be so big. Being
penny-wise and pound-foolish doesn't really save you much in the IPv6
address space.
Antonio Querubin
808-545-5282 x3003
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net