Thomas - is there any way in which you can quantify "excessive"? E.g., make some suppositions for an ISP:
* number of subscribers * subscribers per aggregation point (CMTS for cable) * length of prefix required for each aggregation point * length of prefix to be assigned to an ISP based on the above - Ralph On 7/13/06 9:30 AM, "Thomas Narten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jordi. > >> Hi all, > >> I've reviewed this document and my comments are as follows. > >> 1. Introduction >> "giving out an excessive". I think we need to define excessive >> and/or say if this is an objective or subjective perception. > > I have two repsonses to this. > > First. giving out a /48 to every home network (which today has at most > a handful of machines, which means, one subnet would suffice) is > widely viewed as excessive. Even a /56 to such end sites seems more > than enough space to meet needs for at least the next decade (and most > people seem to be comfortable with that, even if it is a lot of > space). You've been to RIR meetings. Surely you have noticed this > sentiment both in the hallway and in comments made (regularly) at the > microphone. > [...] > Thomas > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------