In message <cap-gugwbnpmzm6ocxuujko93oz38qr_mb4-rk4a5a30excv...@mail.gmail.com >, William Herrin writes: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote: > > > If I had 32 departments and were wanting to give them equal sized > > allocations then I'd give them a /53 each which is 2064 subnets > > each. It isn't that hard to do 8 delegations in the reverse tree > > for each of the 32 departments. Delegation on nibble boundaries > > is for convience and nothing else. > > For comprehensibility which nets convenience. Consistently delegate on > nibble boundaries and your power users don't have to understand Boolean > algebra to make sense of the network.
Hexadecimal is much much simpler than decimal to work with on non nibble/octet boundaries. I think most people are applying IPv4 non octet experience to non nibble IPv6 addressing. The two are nowhere near comparable having had to work with both. > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
