-----Original Message----- From: Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov [mailto:Robert.E.VanOrmer@frb.gov] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:41 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ISP customer assignments
Organizations will be provided /48s or smaller, but given the current issues with routing /48's globally, I think you will find more organizations fighting for /32s or smaller...
Most organizations will still be assigned a /48 (or whatever) from their ISP. Provider-aggregable addressing has no routing scalability problems.
I can see between IPv4 and IPv6 is how much of a pain it is to type a 128 bit address...
I have to agree, here. Moving between letters and numbers, and having to hit "shift" to use the colon wastes valuable keystrokes compared to the keypad. However, compare IPv6 vs IPv4-like numbering: 2001:db8:f1::1 81.93.35.12.241.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1 Did I type the right number of zeroes? Lee