[ipv6-wg] 96 more bits... time for some magic after all?
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Tim Chown
tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Oct 26 09:22:27 CEST 2013
Hi, On 25 Oct 2013, at 11:35, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote: > All, > > We saw two presentations by network architects at the RIPE meeting that > used bits in their IPv6 addressing plan to carry meaning beyond simple > network topology and packet routing. > > For example, declaring a specific bit in the address to be 1 for voice > traffic or 0 otherwise. > > There are motivations for doing this, which may or may not be valid in > any particular case. There are ways to lessen the amount of addresses > consumed by this (for example by assigning /56 instead of /48 to end > users). > > But I think that the important thing is that we have historically not > considered this sort of use with address allocation policy. In face, > RFC 2050bis was *just* published as RFC 7050: Seems ike more of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jiang-semantic-prefix-06 Which has drawn mixed reaction at the IETF. Tim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ipv6-wg/attachments/20131026/318647a8/attachment.html>
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