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>>> There is a huge detent at /48 >> other than the perennial operational pontification from on high by the >> gods of the ietf (brought to us by the folk who brought us the wonderful >> TLA, NLA, etc. classfulness++), could you elucidate? > From one angle, last time I looked, the RIRs were converging on that as > acceptable minimum for a single PI allocation. look again > /48 is a large enough block that single site however you choose to > define that, is not going to have to renumber out of it due to inability > to subnet. one: as smb says, no amount turns out to be enough in the long run two: my point is that, for the reasonably forseable future, hard to see need for more than 256 routing segments needed by an end consumer site > If you mean there's no detent between /48 and /56 wouldn't you a > wholesale operator determine that based on the need and guidance from > your rir? you said there was a huge detent at /48. i am trying to see how you got there. excuse my density, but i still can not. > If you're asking why ipng doesn't incorporate the lessons of cidr > (they're both responses to the same problem), then you tell me, you were > there and I was in high-school. expedience and politics ruled over prudent engineering. classic tvtf. randy
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