IPv6 address prefixes [Was: minutes]

On 22-Jan-2000 Hamid Alipour wrote:
> The thing that I would like you consider is that we have enough address
> space availble trough IPv6.I have two remarks here:

One of the goals of the current RIR system is not just conservation of
address space but aggregation of routes. Many companies and ISPs span
several countries. A Europe-wide company, under a telephone-style
routing-prefix system, would require 30 or so independant routing
prefixes. Similar situations exist in America and Asia-Pacific. Even
a four-fold increase in the size of the routing tables would bring
most of the backbone routers to their knees.

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