[c-nsp] IPv6

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:43:59PM +0200, Ziv Leyes wrote:
> What I do think the most important thing you mention and I want to make sure I understood is regarding the "3000::/3, 4000::/3" and so on.
> Are you actually telling me that IPv6 was built for scalability?

The current global addressing policies work out of FP001, that is,
only 2000::/3 will be used up.

If we figure out in 20 years from now that we were all wrong, and 2000::/3
is already full due to wastage and such, the IETF can give 4000::/3 to
ICANN/IANA, and we can try again, with more restrictive address policies.

We can repeat this 6 times.

> If the answer is yes and adding more zillions of addresses won't
> bring the world to another shock as it is now to transfer all from
> v4 to v6, but will be some kind of seamless updates of the protocol,
> this is something I wasn't aware of and this will make me stop
> "worrying" and I'll keep my mouth shut...

This would not need changing of protocols, software, or anything - just
of allocation policies.

gert
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