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Re: IPv6 end user addressing
From: Mark Newton <newton () internode com au>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:20:08 +0000
On 11/08/2011, at 1:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Yes and no. In terms of potential innovations, if enough of the market chooses /60, they will hard code the assumption that they cannot count on more than a /60 being available into their development process regardless of what gets into the router. Sure, they won't be able to assume you can't get a /48, but, they also won't necessarily implement features that would take advantage of a /48.
They will on their "premium" high price point CPE and/or service provider offerings. It'll be a product differentiator. If enough customers are attracted to it, it'll win. If they aren't, it'll lose. The process of invention and innovation will happen anyway. We're not really talking about that here, we're talking about post-innovation marketing. Maybe ISP#2 in Australia will launch onto the market with /48's for everyone, and we'll respond competitively. Dunno. Whatever, it's all kinda arbitrary really. Not worth arguing about, and certainly not worth delaying implementation until you finish debating the "right" answer.
Perhaps far more than most of you wanted to know about navigation, but, at least worth considering when we think that all forward movement is good forward movement.
The 1-in-60 rule I learned during my pilots license training is a lot easier to explain, without diagrams and with no need for trigonometry. Another useful judgement call when you're flying is to understand that as long as you know where you are and where you want to be, any forward progress whatsoever is a positive when there's a growing thunderstorm behind you :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton () internode com au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton () atdot dotat org (H) Internode Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Brian E Carpenter (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Joel Jaeggli (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Owen DeLong (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Eugen Leitl (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Brian E Carpenter (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Mark Newton (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Cameron Byrne (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Mark Newton (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Mark Newton (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Owen DeLong (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Mark Newton (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Matthew Moyle-Croft (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Owen DeLong (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Cameron Byrne (Aug 11)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing William Herrin (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Owen DeLong (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Philip Dorr (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Mark Newton (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Joel Jaeggli (Aug 10)
- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Scott Helms (Aug 10)
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- Re: IPv6 end user addressing Tim Chown (Aug 10)