[address-policy-wg] RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure
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Carlos Friacas
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Thu Jan 8 11:34:30 CET 2004
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote: > >> Conservation is not an issue regarding IPv6. > > >...within an address block, this is true. However, what is being > >talked about here is "globally routeable chunks of addresses", and > >there conservation *is* an issue, since nothing really changes with > >respect to routing with IPv6 compared to IPv4. > > It is best to clarify what resource we want to conserve. I don't > think there is any need to conserve IPv4 addresses any more. "IPv6 usage growth will also transform conservation of IPv4 in a non-issue." > Exponential growth is a think of the past and we have enough > IPv4 addresses to last 10 to 20 years. 100% Agree. I dont want IPv6 because the world is running out of addresses, i want IPv6 because IPv6 is better than IPv4. > We also have a replacement > protocol, IPv6, that is already commercially deployed in Asia > and in Europe. I usually tend to say: IPv6 is not a new protocol, it is a new protocol *version*... > However, we might still want to conserve the number of entries > in the global routing table because of the impact on router > memory, router CPU and the time required to reload a full view > of the Internet when a router is restarted. If we refuse to give > DENIC a /24 from the recovered "Class C" swamp space we would > be saving a small amount of IPv4 address space but we might not > save any global routing table entries... surely... > --Michael Dillon > > ./Carlos -------------- IPv6 -> http://www.ip6.fccn.pt Wide Area Network Workgroup, CMF8-RIPE, CF596-ARIN FCCN - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional http://www.fccn.pt "Internet is just routes (131586/456), naming (millions) and... people!"
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