proposal for RIPE's IPv6-address space structure
Petri Helenius pete at sms.fi
Fri Nov 22 13:10:37 CET 1996
Daniel Karrenberg writes: > > How about just using the 56 bits for local-IR+subscriber? > The boundary does not need to be fixed at all. > Then use a similar scheme than the present IPv4 one to determine the > size of allocations to local IRs (provider): > Fixed size for new local IRs and further allocations based on > established usage rate. > Using only 56 bits for the IR would effectively defeat the possiblity of using MAC / ESI addresses as the low 48 bits of an IP address. Pete
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