[106992] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Tue Aug 19 11:47:20 2008
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C0F2465B4F386241A58321C884AC7ECC079B9270@E03MVZ2-UKDY.domain1.systemhost.net>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
>> I don't have a problem with assigning customers a /64 of v6
>> space.
>
> Why so little? Normally customers get a /48 except for residential
> customers who can be given a /56 if you want to keep track of
> different block sizes. If ARIN will give you a /48 for every
> customer, then why be miserly with addresses?
I don't operate an ISP network (not anymore, anyway...). My customers are
departments within my organization, so a /64 per department/VLAN is more
sane/reasonable for my environment.
jms
