Forgot sub to nanog-post.. -------- Forwarded Message -------- On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 22:02 -0700, David Conrad wrote:
I _really_ wish people would stop saying '"unlimited"' or 'almost infinite' when talking about IPv6 address space. It simply isn't true, even in the theoretical sense, and particularly given how address space is being allocated now. It also gives many people the wrong impression: that IPv6 addresses will mean every grain of sand in the Universe (or whatever) can have portable address space.
Am I mistaken in thinking that if shim6 (or something like it) did exist, that portable address space could be allocated to everyone (maybe with a different allocation policy?) to be used as (shim6) identifiers. Then, a number of years down the line, if the company met certain criteria they could get an ASN and announce the portable address space as routing prefix if they desired? John