North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
I certainly hope not- but then again I never thought IPv4 would be around this long either.Do you really think that today's allocations are going to be in use (unchanged) when people are building homes out of IPv6-addressed nanobots, or when people are trying to firewall the fridge from the TV remote, etc.? You're right of course.I understand trying to plan for the future, but if someone is setting all this stuff up, getting a new (and larger) IPv6 block from their ISP is going to be the easiest part in the process. Because byte alignment makes for shortcuts in routing softare/hardware allowing higher speeds? Because ARIN says so? :)Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? Why not /52 or /60? /60 is not much bigger than /64, but /52 gives an end-site 16 times as many subnets as /56 while giving the ISP 16 times as many blocks as /48. -Don
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