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Re: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension

To: tony.li@tony.li
Subject: Re: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:25 +1200
Cc: 'Christopher Morrow' <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>, 'Robin Whittle' <rw@firstpr.com.au>, 'Routing Research Group' <rrg@psg.com>
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On 2008-08-26 13:08, Tony Li wrote:
>  
> 
> |I'm quite sure that larger sites with any kind of IT management
> |will need DHCPv6.
> |
> |But I don't see why that interacts with the multi-prefix issue.
> 
> 
> There was an assertion made by someone that IPv6 was going to be
> significantly easier to renumber.

s/easier/less awful/

But I think the reason is not specific to stateless-autoconf or DHCPv6.
In my mind it's because v6 prefixes will never be in desperately
short supply, so the normal model is add/deprecate/drop rather than
replace. That's the point of RFC 4192.

    Brian

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