[address-policy-wg] Re: [GLOBAL-V6] [ppml] How to get a IPv6 /32 the cheap way: go to AFRINIC

On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:45:05PM -0400,
>  David Conrad <david.conrad at icann.org> wrote
>  a message of 12 lines which said:
>> To state the obvious: there are the same number of /32s in IPv4
>> space as in IPv6 space.
> In mathematics, yes, not in actual networks, because of RFC 1715 :-)

I'm not sure the context of the smiley here, but just to be clear:  
the H ratio is irrelevant.

There really are the same number of /32s in IPv4 space as there are  
in IPv6.  Further, as we're talking about PI allocations, there is no  
hierarchy so the H ratio doesn't apply.

The fact that an IPv4 /32 can address 1 interface (or, with NAT,  
more) and IPv6 can address "a few" more doesn't really matter.

Rgds,
-drc