[116720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Addressing Help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Aug 14 17:39:08 2009
In-Reply-To: <869154084-1250285130-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1846477473-@bxe1082.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:38:15 -0400
From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: trejrco@gmail.com
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <trejrco@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "IIRC, RIPE allocated a /19 to France Telecom. Doesn't take
>>more than a few hundred thousand allocations like that one
>>to wipe out the IPv6 address space."
>
> Do we expect a few hundred thousand places that need 2^29
>(500M, give or take(OTTOMH)) /48s? =A0Didn't we _just_ get to
>seeing ~64k ASNs as a limiting factor?
No we don't. Including France's phone company. But that insanity is at
least within the scope of my imagination... unlike more than a small
percentage of cable modem users using more than 16 /64 subnets.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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