On Mon, Oct 05, 2009, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, robert.e.vanor...@frb.gov wrote: > > >The address space is daunting in scale as you have noted, but I don't see > >any lessons learned in address allocation between IPv6 and IPv4. Consider > > A lesson learned is that thinking about address allocation is something > you do not want to spend too many precious seconds of your life on. > That's one reason why the space was designed to be so big. Being > penny-wise and pound-foolish doesn't really save you much in the IPv6 > address space.
.. address aggregation? .. convergence time? I'm sorry, but seeing a good fraction of my local IX simply containing a few ISP's deaggregated view of their "local" internal networks versus a sensible allocation policy makes me cry. IPv6 may just make this worse. IPv6 certainly won't make it "better". adrian
