new 6bone pTLA prefix proposal, comments by 4 March 2002 please

[Michel Py]

> Michael Kjorling wrote
> Just a reflection: why not change to a /35, which I believe
> is the normal production subTLA allocation? This would mean
> that when companies migrate to a production subTLA there
> will be significantly less work involved, as they can just
> hand out the very same NLA/SLAs but under the new prefix.
> Customers would have to renumber anyway, so there is little
> reason they cannot renumber to the same prefix, which still
> means changing only the first 48 bits of the address (plus
> *possibly* the SLA, but that would be unrelated to the
> prefix change).

Associated with the intent of encouraging pTLAs to become
subTLAS, this makes perfect sense.

Michel.