Gert Doering wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Hans Petter Holen wrote:
Again, this seems to exclude mobile operators who may only want to assign /64s to their customers' handsets...
I dont se how that assumption can be made. My mobile handset is connected to the public internet so that I can get updated exchange rates and read my email trough IMAP and so on.
(and not trough NAT as my mobile operator has offered my the choice of not using NAT.)
Iff this had been IPv6 and Iff Bluetooth had worked seemlessly on my other toys they could have had seemless access to the internet also.
Which would work fine with a /64 - "one big LAN with enough IPs"...
This yields two questions:
- is it likely that we'll see mobile handsets that provide connectivity to *two* (or more) independent IPv6 LAN networks?
Yes - as I mentioned during the last RIPE meeting we are now seeing "Mobile broadband" products based on UMTS or EDGE and priced like xDSL in Norway - so if you are in a city and out of DSL coverage you can go mobile. In other words I do not think you can make the desicion on how many networks you need based on the transport technology - but there need to be some other cirteria.
Like "bluetooth and WLAN, and not bridged"?
- would a /60 suffice?
My feeling today is that in most cases a /64 will be sufficient for any *personal* network and going to /63 or /62 for advanced homes - but if I am to look 100 years into the future it is harder to say. Hans Petter