Considerations RR protocol will work well for a small site with a single management policy. Fixed /48 site prefixes are good for renumbering. auto address renumbering works well. DNS records can easily (or automatically) be rewritten. Auto RR wouldn't be friendly with complicated security/routing policies. filtering, aggregation... auto renumbering is sometimes dangerous. applicability should carefully be considered. Textual addresses should not be in configuration files. DNS names should be used as much as possible.