[AusNOG] IPv6 Addressing

[Mark Smith]

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:16:39 +1000
David N <ausnog at khetanna.com> wrote:

> Bad memory? 
> Career continuance....
> 

Steve Deering has retired.

> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 17:42 +1000, David Hughes 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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