Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets

Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> Fri, 24 February 2017 10:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis prohibiting non-/64 subnets
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:49:13 +0100
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Hi,

> something like a /96 would have served the aspect "more machines than you can
> imagine per subnet" perfectly well.

Yeah, I wish we had chose something like that in the past as well :(

Cheers,
Sander