[165997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Sep 30 10:36:08 2013
In-Reply-To: <m2eh8biadm.wl%randy@psg.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:32:51 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
>>> sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
>> The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space
>> exhaustion.
>
> no. ipv4 was the second time, not the first
Hi Randy,
The first time they had 256 addresses (8 bits) right? That's where the
original /8 assignments in IPv4 came from, the folks listed back in
RFC 758 who had an IP address before IPv4. IPv4 jumped from 8 bits to
32 bits. Which when you think about it is the same ratio as jumping
from 32 bits to 128 bits.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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