Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

[Donald Stahl <don () calis blacksun org>]

> Do you really think that today's allocations are going to be in use
> (unchanged) when people are building homes out of IPv6-addressed
> nanobots, or when people are trying to firewall the fridge from the TV
> remote, etc.?
I certainly hope not- but then again I never thought IPv4 would be around 
this long either.

> I understand trying to plan for the future, but if
> someone is setting all this stuff up, getting a new (and larger) IPv6
> block from their ISP is going to be the easiest part in the process.
You're right of course.

> Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries?  Why not /52 or /60?  /60 is
> not much bigger than /64, but /52 gives an end-site 16 times as many
> subnets as /56 while giving the ISP 16 times as many blocks as /48.
Because byte alignment makes for shortcuts in routing softare/hardware 
allowing higher speeds? Because ARIN says so? :)

-Don