IPv6 daydreams

Paul Jakma paul at clubi.ie
Tue Oct 18 05:39:18 UTC 2005


On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, David Barak wrote:

> Wrong issue.  What I'm unhappy about is not the size of the address 
> - you'll notice that I didn't say "make the whole address space 
> smaller."  What I'm unhappy about is the exceedingly sparse 
> allocation policies

You can allocate to 100% density on the network identifier if you 
want, right down to /64.

The host identifier simply is indivisible, and just happens to be 
64bit.

regards,
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