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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
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Heikki.Waris@nokia.com wrote:

> The bottom line is that we shouldn't be absolutely confident that there's
> enough IPv6 addresses unless we take caution in the ways that we allocate
> them. Keeping to the default /64 block at least initially is a good start.

Just to be 100% clear, I disagree. In the IPv6 world we can and must push
the balance further in favour of aggregation, away from conservation, and 
keeping to the default /48 block is a good start.

  Brian

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