[c-nsp] IPv6 Subnetting - Service Provider

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Fri Sep 12 10:56:19 EDT 2008


Hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:50:33AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Subnets smaller than /64 containing (conceptually) global unicast
> addresses are not allowed per the IPv6 addressing architecture RFC.
> So it's just another case of vendors got bitten by RFCs that don't
> match customer requirements. 8-/

I can't really see what's "customer requirements" here, except "we don't
like the RFC, so we decide to ignore it, and then we're surprised that
the result is not what we expect".

It's not like anybody being short on IPv6 addresses.

gert

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