{"draft":"draft-huston-hd-metric-02","doc_id":"RFC4692","title":"Considerations on the IPv6 Host Density Metric","authors":["G. Huston"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"17","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IETF - NON WORKING GROUP","abstract":"This memo provides an analysis of the Host Density metric as it is\r\ncurrently used to guide registry allocations of IPv6 unicast address\r\nblocks.  This document contrasts the address efficiency as currently\r\nadopted in the allocation of IPv4 network addresses and that used by\r\nthe IPv6 protocol.  Note that for large allocations there are\r\nvery significant variations in the target efficiency metric between\r\nthe two approaches.  This memo provides information for the Internet community.","pub_date":"October 2006","keywords":["internet protocol version 6","ipv6 unicast address blocks"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC4692","errata_url":null}