IPv6 Subnet tool

Gert Doering gert at space.net
Wed Jan 14 22:09:56 CET 2009


Hi,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:55:08PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
> For sure. It seems disappointing that LIRs can't just assign /48s  
> consistently, though. Perhaps I'm just not seeing the problem that  
> assigning a /56 solves.

Geoff Huston's math seems to show that we'll run out of IPv6 space in
20-30 years if we assign /48s to every end user out there (plus have 
some inevitable loss due to aggregation hierarchy, and so on)...

Gert Doering
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