Re: Review of draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-02.txt

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:35:14PM +0300, Anssi Porttikivi wrote:
> About the number of IPv6 addressable objects: 
> 
> The global carrier prefixes are now /35. 

I assume you mean /32 here - /35s have not been assigned since a few
years.

> I guess we expect to always have less of them than the current
> ~180 000 IPv4 global routes. Within one carrier prefix we currently
> have 2^(48-35) = 2^13 = 8 K end customer organization networks at
> most, because the customer prefix is 48, currently always. 

Neither.  First of all, it's 2^(48-32) = 64K /48s, second, policy
changes are on the way in all regions to make assignment of /56s possible,
and third, the /32 boundary is not fixed - larger ISPs get larger 
allocations.

Gert Doering
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