[130965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Oct 18 16:10:54 2010
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:10:35 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20101018.202020.41637336.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>
> I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need
> /48s. No, I don't think "that makes all the address assignments the
> same size" is a particularly relevant or convincing argument.
>
> We're doing /56 for residential users, and have no plans to change
> this.
+1
This not only makes pop assignments easier, it gives a much larger
prefix rotation pool. Don't start the flame on rotating prefixes being
evil. It's my implementation to at least give customers some chance at
prefix privacy.
Jack
