minimum IPv6 announcement size

bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com
Fri Sep 27 04:50:02 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:29:17PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 9/26/2013 1:52 AM, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> >  sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...
> 
> The foundation of that, though, was ignorance of address space 
> exhaustion.  IPv4's address space was too small for such large thinking. 
>  IPv6 is far beyond enough to use such allocation policies.

	when concevied, IPv4 was unimaginably large ...  /8's were
	handed out to networks with fewer than 10 devices.    Hindsight
	is 20/20.

	"those who ignore teh past are doomed to repeat it" 

/bill




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