Re: draft-narten-ipv6-3177bis-48boundary-02.txt

[Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>]

Thomas - is there any way in which you can quantify "excessive"?

E.g., make some suppositions for an ISP:

* number of subscribers
* subscribers per aggregation point (CMTS for cable)
* length of prefix required for each aggregation point
* length of prefix to be assigned to an ISP based on the above

- Ralph


On 7/13/06 9:30 AM, "Thomas Narten" <narten@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Jordi.
> 
>> Hi all,
> 
>> I've reviewed this document and my comments are as follows.
> 
>> 1. Introduction
>> "giving out an excessive". I think we need to define excessive
>> and/or say if this is an objective or subjective perception.
> 
> I have two repsonses to this.
> 
> First. giving out a /48 to every home network (which today has at most
> a handful of machines, which means, one subnet would suffice) is
> widely viewed as excessive. Even a /56 to such end sites seems more
> than enough space to meet needs for at least the next decade (and most
> people seem to be comfortable with that, even if it is a lot of
> space). You've been to RIR meetings. Surely you have noticed this
> sentiment both in the hallway and in comments made (regularly) at the
> microphone.
> [...]
> Thomas
> 
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