Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

[Thomas Narten]

Sean,

Spamming the ietf list is bad form.

Trolling is no more appropriate.

Please take this elsewhere.

Thomas


[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Doran) writes:

> Brian Carpenter writes -

> | Please, please, nobody ever pick a prefix at random. 

> Why not?  The chances of collision are quite small.  Moreover, in
> the event of collision, IPv6 is supposed by design to facilitate
> automatic renumbering, so moving to another prefix should be easy, right?
> That's the hype.

> Also, since automatic configuration and extra addresses in hosts
> and routers is part of the IPv6 multihoming architecture, then
> surely when there *IS* a TLA from which addresses percolate down,
> surely the easy renumbering and ease of identifying which addresses
> to prefer and which to deprecate -- stuff we hear is among the great
> features of IPv6, incidentally -- means there is nearly no penalty
> for having chosen a random prefix in the first place.   

> Therefore, shouldn't you (as an IPv6-Lover) be saying:

> | Your prefix should *always* come from your upstream provider

> "Your prefix should *eventually* come from your upstream providers,
> when and if you acquire them"?   Or am I missing something fundamental?

>       Sean.