Re: Wasting address space (was: Re: Last Call: 'Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric' to Informational RFC (draft-huston-hd-metric))

2006-06-06 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Having to choose between /60 and /48 would be much better than having to choose between /64 and bigger in general, as it removes the will I ever need a second subnet consideration, the average allocation size goes

Wasting address space (was: Re: Last Call: 'Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric' to Informational RFC (draft-huston-hd-metric))

2006-06-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-jun-2006, at 5:33, Steven Blake wrote: I am concerned about the conclusion reached in this document (that HD ratios 0.8 and closer to 0.94 should be considered when making address allocations to larger providers). I believe that: (1) this would not solve a real problem, A little

Re: Wasting address space (was: Re: Last Call: 'Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric' to Informational RFC (draft-huston-hd-metric))

2006-06-05 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 3-jun-2006, at 5:33, Steven Blake wrote: I am concerned about the conclusion reached in this document (that HD ratios 0.8 and closer to 0.94 should be considered when making address allocations to larger providers).