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Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:58:46 -0800
On Dec 10, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Ian Smith <I.Smith () F5 com> wrote:
Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is roughly equivalent to a /32 in IPv4. As in, it's the smallest possible assignment that will allow an end-user host to >function under normal circumstances.SWIP or rwhois for a /64 seems excessive to me, FWIW.IPv4/32 is both a routing endpoint and a host. IPv4 is a 32 bit combined routing and host space. IPv6/64 is a routing endpoint and v6/128 is a host. IPv6 is a 64 bit routing space and also a 64 bit host space for each routing space, not a 128 bit combined routing and host space.
You can make a /128 a routing endpoint in IPv6 just like a /32 in IPv4 with all the same rules, restrictions, and limitations.
Evidently, the whois requirement is for networks, not nodes, which makes sense when you think about how the entity that controls a /64 is assuming responsibility for 2^64 network nodes.
Correct (in the first part). In reality, nobody has 2^64 nodes, that's more than the square of the current host addressing available in all of IPv4. You'll never see a /64 full of hosts. For one thing, there's no concept for switching hardware that could handle that large of a MAC adjacency table, nor is there ever likely to be such. Owen
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb () dougbarton us] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 5:05 PM To: Schiller, Heather A Cc: Constantine A. Murenin; nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote:I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64Doug ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2793 / Virus Database: 2634/5946 - Release Date: 12/08/12
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- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois?, (continued)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Mark Andrews (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Owen DeLong (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Mark Andrews (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Constantine A. Murenin (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Randy Bush (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Owen DeLong (Dec 11)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Owen DeLong (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Doug Barton (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Owen DeLong (Dec 11)
- RE: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Ian Smith (Dec 10)
- Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public whois? Owen DeLong (Dec 10)