Re: What's 16 bits between friends?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>]

On 19-sep-2007, at 2:52, Brian Dickson wrote:

> The problem is, that we don't *have* those 16 bits to reclaim,  
> ever, since we give them away with *every* allocation from space  
> that is assigned to us.

Your assumption is that the best place to keep those bits is at the  
ISP/LIR, RIR or IANA. I disagree. It's a good thing that end-users  
get these bits that can possibly later be freed up by appropriate  
protocol action.

> It doesn't even require existing assignments be changed at all -  
> which is the compelling part of the argument. It's a forward  
> looking move.

> No baby, no bathwater. No throwing anything out. No renumbering,  
> only smarter assignments once the deployed base can start using it.

I haven't read all your messages on the subject yet, but how do you  
handle the universal/local bit that's in the 16 bits that you want to  
reclaim?

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