> Irina Dayal wrote: > 1) Is it safe to assume that all IPv6 prefixes will be between 16 and 64 > bits long? The current allocation of IPv6 prefixes seems to require > Aggregatable Global Unicast Addresses, which restricts the prefixes to > this range.
It's not safe (even if it might be true today). Slightly more than 1/8 of the IPv6 address space has been allocated to a purpose so far. There are drafts that are mentionning allocating 0001, which is a /4. Even today, one might want to configure 2000::/3 as the default route instead of 0::/0. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
