[175092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 9 03:38:34 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141009065420.GA26275@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 00:37:05 -0700
To: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:54 PM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2014-10-09 15:25 +1100), Mark Andrews wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
>> Because /64 only allows for a single subnet running SLAAC with
>> currently defined specifications.
>=20
> I fully agree that larger than 64 must be allocation, in mobile =
internet,
> residental DSL, everywhere. I don't think it will happen, but I think =
it
> should and I'm happy to say that I was able to impact the national =
regulatory
> authority to include this in their recommendation for how IPv6 should =
be
> provided.
Sadly there are pieces of 3GPP that limit LTE to single /64 already. =
These should, IMHO, be fixed.
> Having routable network is only benefit of IPv6 over IPv4, and if we =
just give
> customers connected /64 network, without routing /56 there, then =
customers
> will need NAT.
It=92s not the only benefit, it is one of many benefits.
Owen
