Ray Burkholder wrote: >> Why is is necessary insist that using bits in a fashion that doesn't >> require that growth be predicated on requests for additional resources >> be considered wasteful? >> > > Don't we still need to subnet in a reasonably small fashion in order to > contain broadcasts, ill-behaved machines, and other regular discovery crap > that exists on any given segment? And if we have to segment in such a > fashion, the request and allocation of additional resources is a natural > consequence of such containment. >
There are other ways around such problems. You've got larger issues if you need to worry about this. fwiw, I'm (in the ARIN region) assigning the value of a /56 for each CP(E). Along side of that, I'm ensuring that the encompassing /48 is reserved in the event that things go that way. This ensures that each client receives a /56 minimum, but also ensures that I can assign the rest of the /48 if ARIN enforces it, or divvy it up appropriately from the PE to the CE in the event </48 becomes standard. Steve
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