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Re: ISP customer assignments


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:09:12 -0400

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:40:40 -0400, Mark Smith <nanog () 85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc nosense org> wrote:
I think it is both "classless" and "classfull" (although it's different
enough that we probably should stop using loaded IPv4 terms ...)

It's _classless_. There's none of this Class A, B, C, D, or E nonsense. The word everyone is dancing around is, "hierarchical". How the bits get divided up depends on what you want to do with it. SLAAC, in it's current form, requires a 64-bit prefix, but there are other ways to assign addresses that do not have that requirement.

--Ricky


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