Re: [GLOBAL-V6] Comments on AP Consensus

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:01:57PM +0100, Tim Chown wrote:
> > Just a quick comment to that one: TLAs are dead, and "8192 DFZ routing
> > entries" will not happen.
> > 
> > Which correlates to the fact that we're now allocating /35s or /32s,
> > and that there are much more of them than just 8192...
> 
> Except that it's a /35 with a /29 reserved, so it is (29-16)^2 = 8,192.

If you assume "allocation only from 2001::/16", yes, then the math is
true - but that would mean "no other allocations in IPv6 space after
1 65536th has been used, which isn't too useful.

So -> more than 8192 routes.

> Is it a /32 with /29 reserved, or a plain /32?

I'm not sure, this is registry internal business.

They are assumed to fill up a block before going to IANA for the next one,
and to balance aggregation and conservation, they usually leave holes 
(like /35 allocation, /29 reservation) in the first pass, and assign those
blocks later on (if the /35 holder doesn't need 'em).

Gert Doering
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