[address-policy-wg] 2005-08 New Policy Proposal

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:42:28AM +0100, Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:
> The technology specifies that a "network" should be assigned
> a /64 but this thing called a "network" may not be an
> Ethernet broadcast domain. Different people will do different
> things with devices and this will lead them to use different
> address allocation strategies. For instance, consider an
> RS-232 cable daisychained through a factory with modems to
> handle the signal strength amplification when the signal
> gets too strong. Imagine 10 devices attached to this daisy
> chained RS 232 cable which use IPv6 to communicate. One
> might consider this a network or one might not.
> 
> Is this decision a public policy decision or not?

No, as this is not related to policy.  

But if the owner of that network comes and asks for addresses, the 
policy has a very clear answer: he will not get "10" addresses, but
at least a /64.  If the daisy chain is organized in a way that more
than one broadcast segment makes technical sense, he will get more
than a /64.

(And *this* discussion is precisely about the question how much "more
than a /64" is - a /56 or a /48).

Gert Doering
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