[136719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 4 11:55:34 2011
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:55:21 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
In-Reply-To: <20110204165001.GB17194@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/4/2011 10:50 AM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> I suspect that many people will do stupid things in managing their
> bits - presuming that there is virtually infinate 'greenfield' and
> when they have "pissed in the pool" they can just move on to a new
> pool. the downside... renumbering is never easy - even with/especially
> with IPv6.
The problem is, they'll be restricted by RIR guidelines. I know that
existing and future IPv6 allocation proposals for ARIN (our immediate
concern) is based more on end site counts, and a limitation of /48 per
end site without very good justification.
Jack
