Re: [ppml] How to get a IPv6 /32 the cheap way: go to AFRINIC

David Conrad <david.conrad-lcZ7/[email protected]> Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:36:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.org.apnic.global-v6
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:45:05PM -0400,
>  David Conrad <david.conrad-lcZ7/[email protected]> wrote
>  a message of 12 lines which said:
>> To state the obvious: there are the same number of /32s in IPv4
>> space as in IPv6 space.
> In mathematics, yes, not in actual networks, because of RFC 1715 :-)

I'm not sure the context of the smiley here, but just to be clear:  
the H ratio is irrelevant.

There really are the same number of /32s in IPv4 space as there are  
in IPv6.  Further, as we're talking about PI allocations, there is no  
hierarchy so the H ratio doesn't apply.

The fact that an IPv4 /32 can address 1 interface (or, with NAT,  
more) and IPv6 can address "a few" more doesn't really matter.

Rgds,
-drc

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