On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Steve Deering wrote: > >Would you apply the RFC3194 0.8 HD ratio to subnets within a single ISP? > > No, the plan as I understand it is to apply the HD ratio to the number > of /48s, when evaluating an ISP's application for more address space.
So if an ISP came along and said "we have a million customers signed up, we want to give them static /48 prefixes to their current home xDSL lines, and thus we'd like a /23", that should be approved? (2^25^0.8 ~= 1M) Of course, as Tony says, no such ISP exists yet, nor may it for some time. > If that's so, and taking high end of that prediction (12 billion), we > ought to be able to assign a half a dozen (70 billion / 12 billion) > static /48s to every living human (not just every "site" or household), > hierarchically structured for routing and allocation, at a manageable > HD ratio of 80%. And remember that's just with the 001 space. We can > use the rest of the space for the animals, aliens, robots and non-living > humans. The problem is, if our friend Mr Fleming is right, the aliens with be running IPv8 from some different galaxy/stargate prefix :-) Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
