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Tim Chown wrote:
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> I would be interested to know what the addressing requirements of a mobile
> provider would be, in terms of scale and subnetting.  What would the
> "home prefix" of 1,000,000 Vodaphone customers be, for example?  I've
> not yet seen a draft IPv6 allocation policy for a mobile provider.

Good question but it's certainly not a problem unless needlessly
restrictive allocation policies make it so. 1M is a small number in IPv6 land.

  Brian

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