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[address-policy-wg] 2015-03 New Policy Proposal (Assessment Criteria for IPv6 Initial Allocation Size)
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Jan Ingvoldstad
frettled at gmail.com
Tue May 12 13:28:39 CEST 2015
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Sascha Luck [ml] <apwg at c4inet.net> wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:58:46PM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > >> As Nick states, "I'd be interested to see a real life addressing plan >> which >> needed more than this amount of bit space." I'd actually be interested to >> see a real life addressing plan that needed a /32 bit address space, where >> the need isn't constructed based on the mere possibility of getting that >> space instead of merely e.g. a few hundre million times of the entire IPv4 >> space. >> > > The way I read the proposal, it is not about assignment sizes but > about a "aggregation" vs "conservation" conflict. The proponents have, > AIUI, a problem where they might not fully > assign a /32 or /29 allocation but have different routing > policies for parts of their network, which cannot be satisfied > without violating s3.4 of ripe-641. Apparently, my point was not very reader friendly, so I'll try again: Routing-wise, someone with 64 billion billion billion addresses, have about 16 billion billion ways to route the entire IPv4 internet, within the address space constraints of a /32 allocation. Even if we pretend that it's an extremely useful and necessary thing to have a /64 per end user, so that each end user can enumerate and route the entire EUI-64 space, a /32 is still the same as the entire IPv4 space. That there is a "need" for allocating as much as a /32 in the first place is a design failure in how the addressing segmentation has been handled, in my opinion. It's the IPv4 /8 allocation mistake all over again. Also, as I said, and obviously have to repeat for some people: that cat is out of the bag. It is what it is. But there is no need to compound this design failure. -- Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </ripe/mail/archives/address-policy-wg/attachments/20150512/70adf8b2/attachment.html>
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