Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Owen DeLong wrote:

> Does not scale. Not enough IPv4 addresses to do that for 6.8
> billion people on the planet.

It is the first step to have the RSIP style transparent Internet.

The second step is to use port numbers for routing within ISPs.
But, it is not necessary today.

> What if my ISP just routes my /48? Seems to work quite well,
> actually.

Unlike IPv4 with natural boundary of /24, routing table
explosion of IPv6 is a serious scalability problem.

                                                Masataka Ohta