IPv6 Address Planning

Wed Aug 10 16:54:10 UTC 2005

On 10-aug-2005, at 18:48, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

>> This creates the situation where people try to
>> make do with a /56, find out that they need a /48 after all (all
>> those /64 ptps...) and have to renumber.

>     ah... so is there the admission that renumbering in IPv6
>     is pretty much a myth?

Renumbering hosts in IPv6 is a breeze. You just change some settings  
in the routers and the rest happens automatically.

It's more renumbering information in the DNS and filters and such  
that's a problem, regardless of IP version.