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Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:17:16 -0500
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:
On 11/19/10 12:45 PM, William Herrin wrote:The meaningful boundaries in the protocol itself are nibble and /64. If you want socially significant boundaries, add /12, /32 and /48.It is possible and desirable to be able to describe any mask length between /0 and /128. the /64 is an important demarcation point for subnets but everything shorter than that will appear in your routing table.
Hi Joel, Bit, nibble and /64 then. /64 is treated specially by functions in the protocol (like SLAAC) thus it's a protocol boundary rather than a social one (/12 IANA allocations, /32 ISP allocations, /48 end-user assignments). Unless you particularly feel the need to assign /64's to router loopbacks, you'll see plenty of routes longer than /64 in your table too. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside comĀ bill () herrin us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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