BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32)

Sat Nov 27 07:29:51 UTC 2004

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Fred Baker wrote:
> I think the length of the prefix given to a PI edge network should be
> permitted to be larger than a /48 (perhaps a /40 or a /35), but need not be
> as large as is given to an ISP (/30). Willing enough to take the /30, but I
> think the statistics likely don't support it.

So we assign them a 4-byte ASN and a 4-byte network, mush them together
for a total of 64-bits of routing information.