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Hans Petter Holen
hph at oslo.net
Tue Jul 19 08:37:38 CEST 2005
Gert Doering wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Hans Petter Holen wrote: > > >>>Again, this seems to exclude mobile operators who may only want to assign >>>/64s to their customers' handsets... >>> >>> >>I dont se how that assumption can be made. My mobile handset is >>connected to the public internet so that I can get updated exchange >>rates and read my email trough IMAP and so on. >> >>(and not trough NAT as my mobile operator has offered my the choice of >>not using NAT.) >> >>Iff this had been IPv6 and Iff Bluetooth had worked seemlessly on my >>other toys they could have had seemless access to the internet also. >> >> > >Which would work fine with a /64 - "one big LAN with enough IPs"... > >This yields two questions: > > - is it likely that we'll see mobile handsets that provide connectivity > to *two* (or more) independent IPv6 LAN networks? > > Yes - as I mentioned during the last RIPE meeting we are now seeing "Mobile broadband" products based on UMTS or EDGE and priced like xDSL in Norway - so if you are in a city and out of DSL coverage you can go mobile. In other words I do not think you can make the desicion on how many networks you need based on the transport technology - but there need to be some other cirteria. > Like "bluetooth and WLAN, and not bridged"? > > - would a /60 suffice? > > My feeling today is that in most cases a /64 will be sufficient for any *personal* network and going to /63 or /62 for advanced homes - but if I am to look 100 years into the future it is harder to say. Hans Petter
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