Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Wed, 22 February 2017 03:52 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:51:51 +0900
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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-07.txt> (IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture) to Internet Standard
To: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Morrow <
christopher.morrow@gmail.com> wrote:

> But the configuration cost and management overhead is not proportional to
>> the hosts that are served by those interconnections, it is proportional to
>> the number of interconnections. A 10x100G peering interconnection that
>> serves X million hosts is one interface that has to be managed.
>>
>
> isn't the dicsussion here really:
>   "If you want to use /64 go ahead, if you want to use /121 go for it, if
> you want to use SLAAC you'll get a /64 and like it"
>

Not sure. I for one wouldn't agree with that position, because I don't see
that /121 has enough advantages over /127 and /64 - and few enough
downsides for general-purpose hosts - to make it a good idea in general.