22 Nov
1996
22 Nov
'96
1:10 p.m.
Daniel Karrenberg writes:
How about just using the 56 bits for local-IR+subscriber? The boundary does not need to be fixed at all. Then use a similar scheme than the present IPv4 one to determine the size of allocations to local IRs (provider): Fixed size for new local IRs and further allocations based on established usage rate.
Using only 56 bits for the IR would effectively defeat the possiblity of using MAC / ESI addresses as the low 48 bits of an IP address. Pete