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Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 08:34:17 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Ricky Beam wrote:

That's exactly how IPv4 was seen long ago, and we've been and will be living with that mistake for decades.

It was fixed 15 years ago, but not before more than half the space was "wasted". With IPv6 we can use current policy and only "waste" a /3 and then we can change policy and do something smarter if needed. This /3 will last us a long time and we have plenty of time to create something better than SLAAC.

It's time to deploy IPv6 *NOW* with what we have, not to start to change it in fundamental ways and delay deployment several more years by starting to change IPv6 stacks who are by now fairly mature.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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