Re: [GLOBAL-V6]The list of current Issues in IPv6 Policy

[Roger Jorgensen <rogerj@jorgensen.no>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Darrell Root wrote:
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> I had a large lab request some v6 space this week.  Their
> current v4 usage is about 1000 RFC1918 subnets, so I planned
> to allocate a /52 in v6.
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Not sure that was a good example, a better example of the need for a 
RFC1918 alike address space in IPv6 would be something that are Very 
popular where I am from, "LAN" or LAN-party.

To explain what it is I have to use a few examples, You have TG 
(http://www.gathering.org) as a very big example of it (yeah I know they 
are using regular IP's assigned by someone today), but a another 
example are some friends that get together for a weekend to play games, 
they hook their PC's together and play the entire weekend (no sleep, 
just cola, pizza and computer games:)
Some of these "LAN" are so big that they have divided the network up 
into smaler parts and use some sort of routing between them.
What address space should they use? Sure they can just grab any address 
and use it since it's a closed network, but wouldn't it be better and 
"cleaner" if there was a address range assigned for this kind of closed 
networks? 

Another example of usage of RFC1918 address are a semi big corporation 
that for some unknown reason do not want to be connected to Internet but 
still are using IP internal. Are probably lots of other examples to for 
the use of RFC1918, I just listed a few.

There are enough addresses available in IPv6 and it wouldn't hurt to 
assign parts of it for some kind of RFC1918 alike scenario. 



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