On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:56:44 -0800, Scott Howard <sc...@doc.net.au> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM, > Anthony Roberts <na...@arbitraryconstant.com> wrote: > >> It has been my experience that when you give someone a huge address space >> to play with (eg 10/8), they start doing things like using bits in the >> address as flags for things. Suddenly you find yourself using a prefix >> that should enough for a decent sized country in a half-rack. > > Which is, of course, a core design philosophy for IPv6. Stateless > autoconfig > relies on the fact that each network will be allocated 2^64 address.
I'm actually pretty happy about /64's, they take away all the hand-wringing over how big a network should be, and they make manually configured server addresses easier to remember through the use of big regions of 0s. I was thinking more about wasting prefix bits. -Anthony
