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Re: CIDR FAQ
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 12:29:31 -0700
[Yakov]
Paul, The most serious problem we're facing is NOT how to route to the existing allocations, but how we're going to route to all the new allocations that are due to the exponential growth of the Internet.
New allocations are (as of 1466bis) being done through providers, on CIDRized lines. Whether IPv4 or IPv6, new allocations are not going to badly impact the core routing table size.
With this in mind, why do you think that IPv6 allocation would be any different than CIDR IPv4 allocations (which is how all the new allocations suppose to be done) ? So far all the documents I've seen on IPv6 address allocation are quite similar to IPv4 address allocation documents.
They're identical, because CIDR works and there's no reason to stop using it; in fact there's every reason to go on using it, especially given that longer addresses would otherwise lead to longer (and more numerous) prefixes.
that's the _plan_, mind you.I think this is not even "the _plan_". I think that is what some of us could wish be "the plan".
I've seen no evidence that IPv6 addresses will be allocated on anything other than CIDR lines. There are crackpots who think otherwise, but there are always crackpots. CIDR works. The IAB's job is to make sure the internet works. QED.
Current thread:
- Re: CIDR FAQ, (continued)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Simon Poole (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Curtis Villamizar (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 17)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Simon Poole (Aug 16)
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- Re: CIDR FAQ Eliot Lear (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Arnold Nipper (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Paul A Vixie (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ bmanning (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Randy Bush (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Jon Zeeff (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Paul Traina (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ peter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Dave Siegel (Aug 15)