Hi, On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:46:31PM +0100, turchanyi.geza@ln.matav.hu wrote:
I agree, ONE DAY setting up IPv6 only services MUST be possible. However, I do not think that we can apply this assumption today. Most probably not in the next two years to come.
The question here is how to enable the transition period for most of the ISPs as soon as possible, without creating too big mess.
If you end up with a heavily scattered address space, then the IPv6 transition is killed before it has been completed. Everybody will have addresses, just the routing will be missing.
Just count the numbers. At maximum, if every ISP that's out there today and already is a LIR, will get their own /32, we will have about 8000 routes (as that's the number of ASes currently active in the global table). So what? This will not kill routing. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71887 (71770) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299