Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Tue Nov 9 03:10:40 UTC 2004


> To the end user of address space it is absolutely irrelevant how large
> the total space is or what the size of the routing table is.  What
> matters is how much cost/effort you need to expend to get your address
> space, and what you need to use it for.  A guarantee of global
> uniqueness has an unavoidable (and, in fact, quite significant) cost;
> some uses of address space don't require global uniqueness; therefore
> there will be a market demand for non-unique space.  

then let them make up addresses.  oh, you mean they don't want
to collide with global addresses?  so they want nat?  i though
a major goal of v6 was no nat.

again, you want you cake or want to eat it?




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