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Re: classful routes redux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Nov 2 21:19:10 2005

Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:16:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <95315EC0-D2D9-4018-BD18-83612A7A575A@cisco.com>
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com,
	Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Fred Baker wrote:

>
> actually, no, I could compare a /48 to a class A.
>

(someone might already have asked this, but...) why /48? Perhaps it's the
convenience of it all, but I was pretty much willing to 'accept' the
listing as bill/randy had laid it out (accept the wording i suppose)

> On Nov 2, 2005, at 3:51 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > er..  would this be a poor characterization of the IPv6 addressing
> > architecture which is encouraged by the IETF and the various RIR
> > members?
> >
> > 	class A ==  /32
> > 	class B ==  /48
> > 	class C ==  /56
> > 	hostroute == /64
> >
> > (and just think of all that spam than can originate from all those
> >  "loose" IP addresses in that /64 for your local SMTP server!!! Yummy)
> >
> > -- Oat Willie
>
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