On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:27:37 +1300, Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes. We shouldn't forget that there are, objectively, 15 trillion > /48s available, so whatever religious faith people may have > in the HD ratio, there *are* plenty of /48s. The value of the > HD ratio (and the RIR practices related to it) is to avoid > wasteful use of the bits *before* the /48 boundary. More precisely: - 1 trillion /48s in 2000::/3 with HD = 0.889 - 5.4 trillion /48s in 2000::/3 with HD = 0.94 We can comfortably support between 4 - 21 trillion /48s using only half of the total address space. I don't understand why people keep worrying about this. Regards, // Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
