[165979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Sep 27 11:12:32 2013
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1309271038350.894@brugal.local>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:11:50 -0400
To: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
Cc: Ryan McIntosh <rmcintosh@nitemare.net>,
"bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com" <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>,
NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
> Okay, I'm just curious, what size do you (and other's of similar opinion)
> think the IPv6 space _should_ have been in order to allow us to not have to
> jump through conservation hoops ever again? 128 bits isn't enough, clearly,
> 256? 1k? 10k?
Hi Brandon,
There is no bit length which allocations of /20's and larger won't
quickly exhaust. It's not about the number of bits, it's about how we
choose to use them.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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