5 May
2009
5 May
'09
4:53 p.m.
On Tue, 05 May 2009 16:13:05 -0400, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
Actually, they probably would have stuck to a 64 bit address space and it was debated. Then it came down to, let's make it a 64 bit network space, and give another 64 bits for hosts (96 bits probably would have worked, but someone apparently feels the next bump from 64bit is 128bit so there we go).
Ah, but they half-assed the solution. IPv6 makes no distinction between network and host (eg. "classless"), yet SLAAC forces this oddball, classful boundry. Routing doesn't care. Even the hosts don't care. Only the tiny craplet of autoconfig demands the network and host each be 64bits. That's brilliant!