[143496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Thu Aug 11 00:20:40 2011
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:20:08 +0000
In-Reply-To: <76C3FDEC-17A6-4E95-A5A4-C4DA5EA7DC5F@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/08/2011, at 1:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Yes and no. In terms of potential innovations, if enough of the market ch=
ooses
> /60, they will hard code the assumption that they cannot count on more th=
an
> a /60 being available into their development process regardless of what
> gets into the router. Sure, they won't be able to assume you can't get a =
/48,
> but, they also won't necessarily implement features that would take advan=
tage
> of a /48.
They will on their "premium" high price point CPE and/or service provider
offerings. It'll be a product differentiator. =20
If enough customers are attracted to it, it'll win. If they
aren't, it'll lose.
The process of invention and innovation will happen anyway. We're
not really talking about that here, we're talking about post-innovation
marketing.
Maybe ISP#2 in Australia will launch onto the market with /48's for everyon=
e,
and we'll respond competitively. Dunno. Whatever, it's all kinda arbitrar=
y
really. Not worth arguing about, and certainly not worth delaying=20
implementation until you finish debating the "right" answer.
> Perhaps far more than most of you wanted to know about navigation, but, a=
t least worth
> considering when we think that all forward movement is good forward movem=
ent.
The 1-in-60 rule I learned during my pilots license training is a lot easie=
r
to explain, without diagrams and with no need for trigonometry.
Another useful judgement call when you're flying is to understand that
as long as you know where you are and where you want to be, any forward=20
progress whatsoever is a positive when there's a growing thunderstorm
behind you :-)
- mark
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