[136707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Fri Feb 4 06:04:14 2011
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 12:03:04 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D4B3777.8020800@gont.com.ar>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:17:11PM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote:
> > I'm mildly surprised if you think we're going to be done with *this*
> > mess in a few decades.
>
> I fully agree. But planning/expecting to go through this mess *again* is
> insane. -- I hope the lesson has been learned, and we won't repeat history.
Given http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-there/
it is pretty clear the allocation algorithms have to change, or the resource
is just as finite as the one we ran out yesterday.
