Re: IPv6 Allocation Policy

"Craig A. Huegen" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Message-ID <Pine.WNT.4.44.0305191021160.1716-100000@chuegen-w2k04.amer.cisco.com>
On Fri, 16 May 2003, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> I can live with that, but if my employer's network had, say, 999
> segments I might be objecting violently :-)

Sounds like time to create another VLAN.  :)

> > at minimum_allocation + 4 bits, or something like that?  I realize the
> > RIR's don't want to guarantee routability, but they really should take it
> > into consideration.
>
> I think that is something we can't fix at the allocation policy level.
> Megacorps will do what they do today, until the IETF offers a viable
> multihoming solution. And that is being vigorously debated on the
> relevant IETF list.

Fair enough.  My concern is mostly that I might have to come to the
registry and ask for a /32 for each routing point because some service
providers have implemented prefix-length filtering at the minimum
allocation as in the IPv4 world today.

/cah

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