On 19-sep-2007, at 2:52, Brian Dickson wrote:
The problem is, that we don't *have* those 16 bits to reclaim, ever, since we give them away with *every* allocation from space that is assigned to us.
Your assumption is that the best place to keep those bits is at the ISP/LIR, RIR or IANA. I disagree. It's a good thing that end-users get these bits that can possibly later be freed up by appropriate protocol action.
It doesn't even require existing assignments be changed at all - which is the compelling part of the argument. It's a forward looking move.
No baby, no bathwater. No throwing anything out. No renumbering, only smarter assignments once the deployed base can start using it.
I haven't read all your messages on the subject yet, but how do you handle the universal/local bit that's in the 16 bits that you want to reclaim?
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