On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:41:18 +0100 (BST) Brandon Butterworth <bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> > The RFC provides for two address ranges in fc00::/7, one for random > > prefixes (fc00::/8), the other reserved for later management (fd00::/8). > > Later, in some undefined way. A PI lacking enterprise considering > doing v6 this way either waits or decides the available space will do > as someone will fix the managment later. Sixxs demonstrated that some > will see a need > > With low take up of v6 it's early to know what they will see important > > > The more important it is to you that your allocation be unique, the > > more careful you will be to choose a truly random one. > > So a way to have really unique is reasonable. > > > The chance that any > > random prefix will conflict with any chosen prefix is very, very small. > > The chance that two conflicting prefixes would belong to entities that > > will ever actually interact is even smaller. > > People still play the lotteries. > And those people, and some others by the looks of it, don't appear to understand statistics and chance ... > brandon > > > >