On 7/20/11 12:37 PM, Immo 'FaUl' Wehrenberg wrote:
For me that sounds like this is curing symptoms snstead of the real cause. I would suggest to add a clause that a) NCC can hand out new allocations if the addressing plan for the new addresses is sound and b) that simplifying administrational causes should also be an valid reason for address need (such as wastful transition mechanisms like 6rd or assigning /36 per pop eventhough not all pops have more then 2048 /48 to be assigned but for the sake of a clear network design).
With rising smallest initial alloc /29 we do not "cure" this problem, we just make it a bit smaller :) But let's discuss that when we publish the policy change proposal.
We do have enough addresses and we will not get short on them any time if we don't to something incredibly stupid So lets not create artifical obstacles. IPv6 is designed to allow that. Don't give that benefit away by some IPv4-we-don't-have-enough-addresses-and-must-save-addresses-at-all-costs habbits. In IPv6 thats just not necessary anymore, there are enough addresses and making things complicated in order to save addresses is just not reasonable!
talking to convinced. /jan