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Re: I-D Action:draft--remi-despres--ipv6-rapid-deployment--00.txt



Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:38:04PM +0100, Rémi Després wrote:
> Note also that ISPs typically have their IPv4 prefixes coming one by 
> one, with different lengths.
> Free's IPv4 prefixes, for example, are of lengths /16, /15, /14, two 
> /11s, /10.
> he simple solution of your example couldn't apply.

It would work just fine.  The tables would be a bit less trivial, but to
map 6 prefixes of maximum length /10 into 24 bits worth of IPv6 prefixes
is well possible.

> The code to deal with this, instead of being trivial, and with fixed 
> length parameters, would bacome significantly more complex.

The code would need to consult a mapping table, indeed.

Which is not very advanced magic.

Gert Doering
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