[135489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Jan 25 23:54:53 2011
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110126043722.GA4110@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:53:23 +0700
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> But simply assuming that the IPv6 address space will forever remain =
that - only unique host identifiers - I think is disingenious at best. =
:-)
I think 'disingenuous' is too strong a word - 'overly optimistic' better =
reflects the position, IMHO.
;>
In addition to all the extremely valid use-cases you outline, there's =
also the concept of one-time-use prefixes which likely will end up being =
used at the molecular level in manufacturing/supply-chain applications, =
lifetime assignments to individuals as a matter of citizenship which =
will be retired upon their deaths/disenfranchisement, nanite =
communications used to do things like clean plaque out of people's =
arteries in lieu of angioplasty, and a whole host of new applications we =
haven't even dreamed of, yet.
The supreme irony of this situation is that folks who're convinced that =
there's no way we can even run out of addresses often accuse those of us =
who're plentitude-skeptics of old-fashioned thinking; whereas there's a =
strong case to be made that those very same vocal advocates of the =
plentitude position seem to be assuming that the assignment and =
consumption of IPv6 addresses (and networking technology and the =
Internet in general) will continue to be constrained by the current =
four-decade-old paradigm into the foreseeable future.
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