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Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> Wed, 14 June 2017 10:19 UTC

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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:19:02 +0200
From: Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org>
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Subject: Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00
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On 2017 Jun 14 (Wed) at 19:12:44 +0900 (+0900), Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
:On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Peter Hessler <phessler@theapt.org> wrote:
:> mandating /64 subnets in the _architectural specification_ is a bug,
:> period.
:>
:> IPv4 got rid of classful subnets in 1993, IPv6 can join the last century
:> as well.
:>
:This is exactly the sort of scarcity thinking that the 64-bit boundary is
:intended to avoid. Let's ensure that such limitations - which as Peter
:says, belong to the last century - stay in the last century and do not
:enter this one.

Anyone who thinks my statements encourage the /64 boundary is clearly
delusional.

The "last century" comment was about having artificial limitations,
such as /64.  Not about scarcity.


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