IPv6 Address Planning

Wed Aug 10 20:04:44 UTC 2005

On Aug 10, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 10-aug-2005, at 20:13, Randy Bush wrote:
>> the ivtf
> ?

"Internet Vendor Task Force" -- Randy's term for the IETF.

>> people are giving out prefixes as needed, not just the
>> religious /48.
> Yes, and ISPs have historically done so well determining what  
> people "need".

The ISPs have apparently done well in determining what people will  
pay for.  At least those that still exist.

> Power to the people.

One of the nice things about IPv4 was that pretty much nobody cared  
about it other than the folks who were trying to get things working.   
"The people" who were specifying the protocol were also the folks who  
were running the network.

But that's the past...

Rgds,
-drc