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Re: Is a /48 still the smallest thing you can route independently?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Oct 13 15:02:08 2012
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:01:51 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FEF985E-0131-49BE-8407-76D04217A8BF@netconsonance.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Jo Rhett wrote:
>
> I've finally convinced $DAYJOB to deploy IPv6. Justification for the
> IP space is easy, however the truth is that a /64 is more than we need
> in all locations. However the last I heard was that you can't
> effectively announce anything smaller than a /48. Is this still true?
>
> Is this likely to change in the immediate future, or do I need to ask
> for a /44?
/48 is the new /24
randy
