[172444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Credit to Digital Ocean for ipv6 offering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 19 06:56:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACQ0XpKEu=w3RnFgPD+ZewnzE_UsjDxfwPGsWuU5m_GiK=Q3eA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 03:52:29 -0700
To: Daniel Ankers <md1clv@md1clv.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Daniel Ankers <md1clv@md1clv.com> wrote:
> On 18 June 2014 19:05, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> OTOH, it's far better than those ridiculous providers that are =
screwing over their customers with /56s or even worse, /60s.
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> Sad, really.
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> Owen
>=20
>=20
> Is giving a /56 to residential customers REALLY "screwing them over"?
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> It may be a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm struggling to =
come up with use cases for the home which would take up even 10% of the =
networks available in a /56. And if the vast, vast majority of home =
users will never come close to needing the whole of a /56 then I don't =
see why every home should be given a /48.
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> Dan
Yes=85 It=92s not about the number of subnets, it=92s about having =
enough bits wide to automate a hierarchy. 8 bits only allows 1x8 or 2x4, =
while 16 bits allows significantly more flexibility in topology.
Owen
