[135480] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jan 25 21:04:37 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C286B338444@ex-mb-1.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:02:16 -0800
To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
>> Even if every RIR gets to 3 /12s in 50 years, that's still only =
15/512ths of the
>> initial /3 delegated to unicast space by IETF. There are 6+ more /3s =
remaining
>> in the IETF pool.
>=20
> That's good news - we need to make sure we have a /3 for both the Moon =
and Mars colonies. ;)
>=20
> Nathan
>=20
>=20
I'll be surprised and happy to see it if we reach the point of =
colonizing either of those locations
before we reach the point of IPv6 being an insufficient protocol for =
modern needs.
Owen
