[195260] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Jul 11 10:25:28 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:55:00 -0400."
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:25:17 +1000
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Thomas Bellman <bellman@nsc.liu.se>
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In message <CAP-guGWbNPMZm6OcXuUJKo93OZ38QR_mb4-RK4A5A30ExcvKiQ@mail.gmail.com
>, William Herrin writes:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>
> > If I had 32 departments and were wanting to give them equal sized
> > allocations then I'd give them a /53 each which is 2064 subnets
> > each. It isn't that hard to do 8 delegations in the reverse tree
> > for each of the 32 departments. Delegation on nibble boundaries
> > is for convience and nothing else.
>
> For comprehensibility which nets convenience. Consistently delegate on
> nibble boundaries and your power users don't have to understand Boolean
> algebra to make sense of the network.
Hexadecimal is much much simpler than decimal to work with on non
nibble/octet boundaries. I think most people are applying IPv4 non
octet experience to non nibble IPv6 addressing. The two are nowhere
near comparable having had to work with both.
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
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