[123971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Thu Mar 18 15:26:45 2010
In-Reply-To: <3B128C1B-B1AE-4927-A1CD-208A5BBDB590@academ.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:25:43 -0400
To: Stan Barber <sob@academ.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:24 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Joel made a remarkable assertion
>> that non-aggregable assignments to end users, the ones still needed
>> for multihoming, would go down under IPv6. I wondered about his
>> reasoning. Stan then offered the surprising clarification that a
>> reduction in the use of NAT would naturally result in a reduction of
>> multihoming.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Stan Barber <sob@academ.com> wrote:
> I was not trying to say there would be a reduction in multihoming. I was
> trying to say that the rate of increase in non-NATed single-homing
> would increase faster than multihoming. I guess I was not very clear.
Hi Stan,
Your logic still escapes me. Network-wise there's not a lot of
difference between a single-homed IPv4 /32 and a single-homed IPv6
/56. Host-wise there may be a difference but why would you expect that
to impact networks?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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