[75880] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Nov 27 02:30:23 2004
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:29:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041126221702.04c366b8@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Fred Baker wrote:
> I think the length of the prefix given to a PI edge network should be
> permitted to be larger than a /48 (perhaps a /40 or a /35), but need not be
> as large as is given to an ISP (/30). Willing enough to take the /30, but I
> think the statistics likely don't support it.
So we assign them a 4-byte ASN and a 4-byte network, mush them together
for a total of 64-bits of routing information.