[off-topic] Re: [address-policy-wg] 2008-01 Moved to Review Phase (Assigning IPv6 PI to Every Inetnum Holder)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:10:39PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > a /56 is a tad over 1000 networks, each the size of the
> > entire IPv4 space.
> 
> this is a little fallacy we keep playing on ourselves.  it is only
> usefully true if you think you will be deploying absolutely jigongous
> layer two flat networks of O(2^64) size.  and we all know that's not
> possible.
> 
> or are you suggesting that we all throw the /64 magic lan boundary back
> in the ietf's face at this late date?  while this would not break my
> little black heart, i don't think it's very likely to succeed.
> 
> randy

	"we" in this case is me and the mouse in my pocket.
	and yes, this is tossing the /64 stricture.  the house
	network is nicely tucked into a /112 - although we advertize
	a /48 covering prefix so it will get transit.  

--bill