[158775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do some providers require IPv6 /64 PA space to have public
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Mon Dec 10 17:05:15 2012
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:04:52 -0800
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: "Schiller, Heather A" <heather.schiller@verizon.com>
In-Reply-To: <B9EBD2474913AD4A995B8C7B8BEF8C0E159AE7A0B7@FHDP1LUMXC7V43.us.one.verizon.com>
Cc: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/10/2012 01:27 PM, Schiller, Heather A wrote:
> I think most folks would agree that, IPv4 /32 :: IPv6 /128 as IPv4 /29 :: IPv6 /64
Quite the opposite in fact. In IPv6 a /64 is roughly equivalent to a /32
in IPv4. As in, it's the smallest possible assignment that will allow an
end-user host to function under normal circumstances.
SWIP or rwhois for a /64 seems excessive to me, FWIW.
Doug
