[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing

[David Hughes]

Hate to show my age here but years ago (1993 perhaps) I spoke at the Internet Society's conference in San Francisco.  I remember watching a presentation by Peter Ford when he was getting the gospel according to CIDR out into the public.  The 2 points below sound very similar to the reasons we needed to roll out CIDR.  What's wrong with giving everyone who needs more than 3 * /24's a /16 I ask you?

So to answer Graham's original question : why allocate 8,446,744,073,709,551,616 addressed to a point to point link?  Because our industry has a bloody bad memory.


David
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On 06/04/2011, at 1:55 PM, Michael Christie (micchris) wrote:

> I would suggest:
> 
> 1) It makes your design simpler: /64 everywhere
> 2) There are 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 /64s available*
> 
> *apart from special/reserved ranges.