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> 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
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