[156412] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Mon Sep 17 19:43:41 2012
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:41:35 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <50571759.5050704@illuminati.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John Mitchell wrote:
> I think people forget how humongous the v6 space is...
They don't. Instead, they suffer from it.
> Remember that the address space is 2^128 (or
> 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses)
That is one of a major design flaw of IPv6 as a result of failed
attempt to have SLAAC, which resulted in so stateful and time
wasting mechanism.
As it is virtually impossible to remember IPv6 addresses, IPv6
operation is a lot harder than necessary.
Masataka Ohta
