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




On 16 jul 2006, at 00.58, Tony Hain wrote:

Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
...
I would be happy if I knew about deployments being cooked  that
required /64 per user, let alone anything more. I still have a hard
time imagining what technology will deployed at most sites that
_require_ separate subnets, but I am trying to be generous and will
accept that a few might be needed.

You appear to be focused on number of devices. Think different media types. There is no reason that any new media type should be stuck with 25 year old framing technology. We get there by default now because multi-media bridging
is known to be broken and to date routing has been too hard. There is
nothing really magic about local routing though so it is reasonable to
conclude that over the 500+ year lifetime we expect for IPv6 that differing media types will arrive with framing that is better routed than bridged, and that trivial management of local routing for structured topologies will
appear.

I think that over those 500+ years we might even have solved routing. In the mean time even for new encap types you will not see more than 1-5 networks in a home.

- kurtis -