[130928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Oct 18 12:52:27 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <02dd01cb6ee2$5ac0a530$1041ef90$@net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:45:06 -0700
To: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Tony Hain wrote:
> This 'get a /32' BAD ADVICE has got to stop. There are way too many =
people
> trying to force fit their customers into a block that is intended for =
a
> start-up with ZERO customers.
>=20
+1
> Develop a plan for /48 per customer, then go to ARIN and get that size
> block. Figure out exactly what you are going to assign to customers =
later,
More accurately... A /48 per customer end-site...
> but don't tie your hands by asking for a block that is way too small =
to
> begin with. Any ISP with more than 30k customers SHOULD NOT have a =
/32, and
> if they got one either trade it in or put it in a lab and get a REAL =
block.=20
>=20
But otherwise, yes, Tony is right.
Owen
