On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org> wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:15:55 -0500 "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com> wrote:
I didn't realize "human friendly" was even a nominal design consideration, especially as different humans have different tolerances for defining "friendly" :)
This from people who can probably do decimal to binary conversion and back again for IPv4 subnetting in their head and are proud of it. Surely IPv6 hex to binary and back again can be the new party trick? :-)
Maybe we can all do this stuff in our head, but I have found removing unnecessary thinking from the equation is useful for those "3am" moments. Given that I am assigning a /48 to a site anyway, and 65k /64s is "more than I will ever need", does it really matter if the site-specific numbering plan isn't ruthlessly efficient? -- Tim:> Sent from Brooklyn, NY, United States