Re: I-D Action: draft-mishra-6man-variable-slaac-01.txt

[Simon Hobson <[e-mail]>]

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike=[e-mail]> wrote:

> We've discussed this before. Let's go that route and give people larger prefixes instead of trying to carve up that poor /64 into smaller pieces.

Perhaps we're simply looking at the problem from the wrong angle ?

Perhaps the right question to be considering is "HOW do we persuade that subset of ISPs that they need to allocate a /56 or /48 ?" It seems to me, that if we can solve that one, then all the rest of the discussion becomes moot.

That's already in the various best practice guides, and has been since ... like forever. But some are either not seeing it, not understanding it, not acting on it as it conflicts with everything they "know" about networking, or just don't see any reason to act on it as it conflicts with their commercial priorities.


I'll put a magic wand on my ${festive_season} list :D