Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
And before anyone says "there are 281474976710656 /48s!", just
remember your history. I was not there when v4 was spec'ed out, but I
bet when someone said "four-point-two BILLION addresses", someone else
said "no $...@#%'ing way we will EVER use THAT many...."
Let's face it - the current v6 assignment rules are to solve a 1990s set
of problems. A /64 isn't needed now that we have DHCP(v6). Setting
the idea in people's heads that a /64 IS going to be their own
statically is insane and will blow out provider's own routing tables
more than is rational. (Think of the processing overhead of all the
DSL/Cable customers going up and down). This is going to be far more of
an issue and drive network design than a minor blow out in the v6
routing table.
As Neil Finn of Split Enz fame once wrote:
History never repeats,
I tell myself before I go to sleep.
Followed on the same album by a song called "My Mistake".
MMC
(Who's trying to implement v6 native for DSL customers but finds that the world
doesn't
have useable solutions yet for DSL CPE, BRAS, IPv6 allocation etc and doesn't
look like it will for a while).
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