IPv6 PI allocation

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

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. 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.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net