Hi Dan,
Let's say I have an Ethernet segment with 20 workstations and 5 printers. I determine that two of the workstations need access to the Internet so I rent 2 global addresses from my ISP.
What makes you think that you will "rent" individual addresses from your ISP in IPv6? The idea is that every customer site should receive a /48 allocation, and individual nodes (at the end of point-to-point links, etc.) should receive a /64. So far, the ISPs who have deployed IPv6 (there are only a few right now), have been allocating a /48 or a /64 to every customer. And, we were successful in getting the 3GPP folks to change their specs to allocate a /64 to every cell phone... Margaret -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
