Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > 4 or 6 subnet bits are not sufficient for most uses. It is expected > that these addresses will be used for internal numbering within an > enterprise, so we should, at minimum, leave room for a 16-bit subnet > ID. This would allow the same subnet numbers to be used for global > and local subnets.
The key point of my proposal must be unclear. I'm not proposing leaving 4 or 6 bits to number the site. Instead, I'm proposing that each router number the subnets it is attached to - ie subnet identifiers are automatically generated from a 50+ bit space. A draft has been written and is working its way through a review process. Hopefully that will make things clearer. -- Andrew White [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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
