[ipv6-wg] IPv6 on P2P links

On 26.05.2011 10:45, Lars Erik Utsi Gullerud wrote:

> The reasoning behind /124 (rather than e.g. /127) for us, is simply to 
> make addressing more "human-readable" as well as simpler to manage in 
> terms of reverse DNS. Using /124 you always end up on a 
> "human-friendly" boundary so your networks are xx::10/124, xx::20/124, 
> xx::30/124 and so on, and you can then assign hosts that are always 
> like xx::10:1/124 + xx::10:2/124 (rather than having your tech staff 
> trying to sort out hexadecimal stuff in their heads). This also fits 
> very nicely with nibble addressing in ip6.arpa as every network is its 
> own "nibble". I believe someone wrote an I-D about using /124s a while 
> back, but my memory isn't what it used to be...

Correcting myself here (not enough coffee yet) - the host addresses 
should of course be xx::11/124 and xx::12/124 and so on in the text 
above. :)

Regards,
Lars Erik