On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:56:26 +0930 Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi John, > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:55:27 -0700 > "John Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If my organization is large, and I will petition my ISP for a > > /44, or even a /40, I'd like to be able to use the mechanism > > outlined above to randomly generate myself a Unique Local /40 > > prefix so I can map my routable and site-restricted space as I > > desire. > > > > Out of interest sake, if you are able to tell me, I'm curious how large > ? I'd have thought a /46 or 256K subnets would have been large enough > for the largest organisations in the world, even allowing for unused > subnets due to aggregation to allow for multiple instances of IGPs > separated by BGP internally, as IGPs may be limited in how many subnets > they can carry. At least to me, a /40 (or just a /40 size address space > of different /48s) for a single organisations' subnet requirements is > pretty much inconceivable. > I've just realised that the above scenario might by hypothetical rather than actual. Is that the case ? Thanks, Mark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
