[134359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST IPv6 document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Jan 5 07:30:45 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:29:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim-yTU59z=ALR154fFhtb5RsAoo0XQvMDOGg7KE@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> please explain why this is in any way better than operating the same LAN =
with a subnet similar in size to its existing IPv4 subnets, e.g. a /120.
Using /64s is insane because a) it's unnecessarily wasteful (no lectures on=
how large the space is, I know, and reject that argument out of hand) and =
b) it turns the routers/switches into sinkholes.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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