Global Route Aggregation for Efficient Routing
By the time the Internet community started serious work to find a solution to the growth problems in the Internet, many people already agreed that a more thoughtful public address assignment policy for the public IPv4 address space could help keep Internet routing tables much smaller and more manageable. IPv6 public address assignment follows these same well-learned lessons.
Note
The descriptions of IPv6 global address assignment in this section provide a general idea about the process. The process can vary from one Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to another and one Internet Service Provider (ISP) to another, based on many other factors.
The address assignment strategy for IPv6 is elegant, but ...
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