My comment to the draft authors is that the request for a /16 may be overly conservative; why not ask for something more like a /8, /10, etc. (or even more) to reduce fragmentation of the IPv6 address space.
I am fine with that, but what will the IANA, er IETF allow. Dino ---- Internet Protocol Version 6 Address Space (last updated 2007-07-19) IPv6 Prefix Allocation Reference Note ----------- ---------- --------- ---- 0000::/8 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] [1] [5] 0100::/8 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 0200::/7 Reserved by IETF [RFC4048] [2] 0400::/6 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 0800::/5 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 1000::/4 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 2000::/3 Global Unicast [RFC4291] [3] 4000::/3 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 6000::/3 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] 8000::/3 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] A000::/3 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] C000::/3 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] E000::/4 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] F000::/5 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] F800::/6 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] FC00::/7 Unique Local Unicast [RFC4193] FE00::/9 Reserved by IETF [RFC4291] FE80::/10 Link Local Unicast [RFC4291] FEC0::/10 Reserved by IETF [RFC3879] [4] FF00::/8 Multicast [RFC4291] ---- -- to unsubscribe send a message to rrg-request@psg.com with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg