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Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Thu Sep 26 16:07:53 2013

From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <52448B0D.8030505@bitfreak.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:07:33 -0700
To: Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


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On Sep 26, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org> wrote:

> On 9/26/2013 1:52 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>>  sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
>=20
> The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space =
exhaustion.  IPv4's address space was too small for such large thinking.

The first dicussion I could find about ipv4 runnout  in email archives =
is circa 1983

>  IPv6 is far beyond enough to use such allocation policies.

There are certain tendencies towards profligacy that might prematurely =
influence the question of ipv6 exhaustion and we should be on guard =
against them=85 allocating enough /48s as part of direct assignments  is =
probably not one of them.


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