[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing

[Brent Paddon]

At least if ever we do run out of IP's we can re-number all our point to
point links and get a crapload of address space back :) ...

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, David Hughes <David at hughes.com.au> wrote:

>
> 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
> ...
>
> 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.
>
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