On the size of the prefix to allocate for documentation. In IPv4, the following is reserved per RFC 3330.
> 192.0.2.0/24 - This block is assigned as "TEST-NET" for use in > documentation and example code. It is often used in conjunction with > domain names example.com or example.net in vendor and protocol > documentation. Addresses within this block should not appear on the > public Internet. This is far less than is needed (strictly speaking) to document usages that require shorter prefixes. But I'm not aware of this being a problem in practice. I think what we want here is a workable balance between no addresses for documentation at all and allocating too much space in order to document all possibilities. "Michel Py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then a /32 is not enough, IMHO. A /32 is the size currently allocated to > LIRs; imagine a sample BGP config that involves three LIRs, you would > need at least three /32s. A /30 would be what I consider the bare > minimum in this case. But can't the same then be said for a 192.0.2.0/24 not being long enough in IPv4? Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
