Joe Maimon wrote: > > > Joe Greco wrote: > >> One of the goals of providing larger address spaces was to reduce (and >> hopefully eliminate) the need to burn forwarding table entries where >> doing so isn't strictly necessary. When we forget this, it leads us >> to the same sorts of disasters that we currently have in v4. >> >> ... JG > > And if you are encouraging /48 handouts, /32 isnt large enough to > prevent that on the global level. >
What remains to be seen is what will happen when someone says "hey, my /32 is full, I need another one". Will it be: a) Sure, here's another /32, have fun! b) You didn't subnet very efficiently by current standards even though it was encouraged in the past; try to reclaim some space internally. ~Seth
