On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Sheng Jiang <jiangsh...@huawei.com> wrote:
> Yes, there is no intension to change ARIN’s policy at all. ARIN should > remain the current policy of assign IPv6 address block. But the network > providers, who has already get address block, can choose to use the > addresses with certain semantics. And no one, including ARIN can stop this. > Agreed, but even for network providers that already have blocks, this will be an issue if they ever need another block. But I do think you should write this in the draft. > However, it is not necessary as worse as 2^N times. For example, it there > are 2 bits to separate different use types (say 4 different types), it > actually only separate use address spaces into four different spaces. It > does not limit the address space to be 1/4 of original space. > How is that different from saying "by adding two bits of semantics in the prefix, the network will use 4 times the address space than it would otherwise"?
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