On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Keith Moore wrote: > > I'm not sure what we gain by doing that, as opposed to setting aside > > private address space from any global prefix by filtering it at > > administrative boundaries... > > we need the ability to assign global prefixes to sites that aren't > directly connected to the public Internet, even though they might > be connected to large numbers of other networks.
Allocating one /32 and giving these sites a /48 each should last for the first 64k such private networks (which are assumed to be rather rare). Should be pretty easy to accomplish if this is really necessary.. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
