[address-policy-wg] Re: [policy-announce] 2006-02 New Policy Proposal (IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy)

> >You can design your network with the 
> > future in mind and then grow into your topology.
> > That is not possible in today's IPv4 world where
> > everybody is concerned with not wasting addresses.
> 
> I think it's worth clarifying that RIPE's IPv4 policy specifically 
> states that one-to-one renumbering for valid assignments are fine. 

I understand that. But in the IPv6 world, if I
have a plan to build an organization in 20 countries
with 3 regional manufacturing plants, and 35 sales
offices, I can build the network topology around
that plan, even though I only have 8 employees
on the second floor of a former typewriter repair shop.
I can size my subnets according to my 10-year plan
and my ISP will give me the /48 that I need to
make it that way. 

However, in IPv4 my ISP will not accept the 10-year
plan and will not give me 6,000 IPv4 addresses for
my factory subnet that currently contains only one
server.

There is a clear philosophical difference between
IPv6 addressing and IPv4 addressing. 

--Michael Dillon



--Michael Dillon