(ngtrans) Re: again: draft-blanchet-ipngwg-testadd-00.txt

[Alain Durand <[e-mail]>]

At 12:33 PM 6/27/2001 -0400, Marc Blanchet wrote:
>At/À 22:41 2001-06-27 +0700, Robert Elz you wrote/vous écriviez:
>>It has been almost 2 weeks now since I suggested fe00::/9 as the
>>prefix to use in Marc's draft to use for examples in doc and such.

I'll keep the discussion in NGtrans.

The reason why I'd like to have this prefix under 3ffe::/16 is that
we already have the delegation here, thus the is no need to ask for 
something new.
In my opinion, the main reason to want something outside of 3ffe::/16 would 
be if the 6bone
prefix was to be reclaimed and reassigned, and I do not expect such an 
event to occur
anytime soon.

As about prefix length, /9 seems to me overkill and a real waste of address 
space.
The IPv6 address space is very large, but we must take great care of it, as any
fixed sized resource, as large as you want, can be exhausted by un-prudent
allocation.

The intend of Marc's draft is to document networks and backbone, so there is
a need to reserve something larger than /48. Reserving a /32 seems to me
large enough to achieve that goal without wasting to much space.

         - Alain.