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Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please


From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:25:17 +1000


In message <CAP-guGWbNPMZm6OcXuUJKo93OZ38QR_mb4-RK4A5A30ExcvKiQ () mail gmail com
, William Herrin writes:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:

If I had 32 departments and were wanting to give them equal sized
allocations then I'd give them a /53 each which is 2064 subnets
each.  It isn't that hard to do 8 delegations in the reverse tree
for each of the 32 departments.  Delegation on nibble boundaries
is for convience and nothing else.

For comprehensibility which nets convenience. Consistently delegate on
nibble boundaries and your power users don't have to understand Boolean
algebra to make sense of the network.

Hexadecimal is much much simpler than decimal to work with on non
nibble/octet boundaries.  I think most people are applying IPv4 non
octet experience to non nibble IPv6 addressing.  The two are nowhere
near comparable having had to work with both.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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