[117939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP customer assignments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Oct 6 21:09:54 2009
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:09:12 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091007081040.40af2ae3@opy.nosense.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:40 -0400, Mark Smith
<nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
> I think it is both "classless" and "classfull" (although it's different
> enough that we probably should stop using loaded IPv4 terms ...)
It's _classless_. There's none of this Class A, B, C, D, or E nonsense.
The word everyone is dancing around is, "hierarchical". How the bits get
divided up depends on what you want to do with it. SLAAC, in it's current
form, requires a 64-bit prefix, but there are other ways to assign
addresses that do not have that requirement.
--Ricky
