[143288] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Mengel)
Fri Aug 5 12:18:22 2011
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:17:48 -0400
From: Brian Mengel <bmengel@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In reviewing IPv6 end user allocation policies, I can find little
agreement on what prefix length is appropriate for residential end
users. /64 and /56 seem to be the favorite candidates, with /56 being
slightly preferred.
I am most curious as to why a /60 prefix is not considered when trying
to address this problem. It provides 16 /64 subnetworks, which seems
like an adequate amount for an end user.
Does anyone have opinions on the BCP for end user addressing in IPv6?
