IPv6 PI allocation

[Sam Wilson]

On 18 May 2007, at 12:50, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:24:20AM +0100, Sam Wilson wrote:
>> Excuse me while I delurk to make a meta point.  One of the problems
>> with IPv6 is that it has too many bits in the address and we don't
>> know how to handle that.  Backbone people want to hand out short
>> prefixes to keep routing tables short; edge people want to use long
>> prefixes so as not to waste bits at the RHS.  It's a fundamental
>> problem and it's not going to go away.
>
> I'm an edge person, and I want short prefixes. ...

Apologies for (slightly) misclassifying the constituencies.  :-)

> ... People need to get
> over this mentality that bits are precious and that there's some
> form of waste in not using them. Convenience is not waste.

Classful addressing in IPv4 was, though it wasn't obvious when it was  
instituted.

Sam