Keith Moore wrote: > ... > I don't think stability is the issue. global addrs need to > be reasonably > stable (which is to say, on the order of MTBFs for reliable machines) > whether or not the prefix is provider-based, topology-based, or > assigned to the site. the idea that a prefix can be changed > at a whim > is just a fantasy.
Clearly you still live in the fantasy land where pleanty of addresses were handed out 20 years ago, the birds sing, the air is always clean, and the sun always shines... Changing prefixes is the new reality. I know first hand as my ISP recently changed their subnet prefix & allocations overnight without bothering to inform anyone. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
