[75692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Stupid Ipv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sat Nov 20 21:56:23 2004
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 02:55:51 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: crist.clark@globalstar.com,
Lars Erik Gullerud <lerik@nolink.net>,
Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041121001318.48B5F5D04@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Just to introduce a touch of practicality to this discussion, it might
> be worth noting that Cisco and Juniper took the RFC stating that the
> smallest subnet assignments would be a /64 seriously and the ASICs only
> route on 64 bits. I suspect that they influenced the spec in this area as
> expending them to 128 bits would have been rather expensive.
darn... and we fought so hard last time we had to expunge
classfull addressing asics/hardware in the late 1990s.
looks like it crept back into vendor gear. IPv6 was -never-
supposed to be classful.
--bill
