Re: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6 in wheezy as default?
On Mon, 09 May 2011, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> > We've been trying to avoid that kind of bad practice here in Brazil,
> > through an effort to get ISPs to undertand you do NOT issue /64 to
> > clients in the various NANOG-like (locally called "GTER") encounters
> > throughout the year.
> >
> > It is an uphill battle. Time for an informational RFC, perhaps? It
> > does help to point people at a RFC, where all technical arguments are
> > fully written down and explained.
>
> Allocating /48, /56 or /64 for end users is not a technical discussion.
> The arguments may be pseudo-techincal, but that's only an attempt to
> obscure the the real issue: market segmentation.
I assure you that is not what I heard from the big operators and
not-so-big ISPs enabling experimental IPv6 access to their users. They
did not want to 'waste IPv6' (IPv4-shortage-induced paranoia), and some
were also worried that it would force users to have IPv6 routers if they
got anything bigger than a /64, etc.
Might not always be the case, obviously. But it often is IME.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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