Proposed change in 6bone pTLA 3FFE usage - 2nd (final?)

[Bill Manning]

nibble waste can be the source of hugh waste.
however, its what folks want, its do-able, and
I've been persuaded that my real source of concern
may not get triggered.  I drop this isssue for now
and lets move on.


> 
> Bill,
> 
> > 	Well perhaps.  The hack is really intrackable above a /16
> > delegation in the IPv4 world.
> 
> in IPv4 the problem is much worse than in IPv6.  To inverse-delegate a
> /9, /17 or /25 in IPv4, you need 128 CNAME pointers.  In IPv6, the
> worst case requires only eight of them.
> 
> Having personally delegated quite a few eight-host subnets according
> to the classless in-addr "hack", I think this is quite tractable.
> 
> At least I don't think it's a good enough excuse to potentially waste
> gazillions of addresses by choosing bit boundaries a "user friendly"
> way.  Although this is just the 6bone, I think that it would set a
> really bad example.
> -- 
> Simon.
> 


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--bill