Re: ping-pong phenomenon with p2p links & /127 prefixes

[James Joyce <randy@psg.com>]

dear stephen daedalus,

> The whole point of IPv6 is to make addresses and prefixes plentiful.
> If global addresses facilitate the management of peering, why exactly
> would we not provide sufficient allocations to the network managers?

who has said they are not provided?

> Do we really believe that allocating prefixes to 100,000 or even
> 1,000,000 interconnection points will deplete the stock? That would
> just be less than 1 hundred thousandth or one 1 billionth of the
> available space!

this is off the wall.  no one is talking about a lack of global
addresses.  we are talking about protocols which insist on not using
them but use 'local' addresses insteady.

james