[175102] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (manning bill)
Thu Oct 9 05:10:41 2014
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From: manning bill <bmanning@isi.edu>
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 02:09:54 -0700
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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yes! by ALL means, hand out /48s. There is huge benefit to announcing =
all that dark space, esp. when
virtually no one practices BCP-38, esp in IPv6 land.
/bill
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On 8October2014Wednesday, at 18:31, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
>=20
> Give them a /48. This is IPv6 not IPv4. Take the IPv4 glasses off
> and put on the IPv6 glasses. Stop constraining your customers
> because you feel that it is a waste. It is not a waste!!!! It
> will also reduce the number of exceptions you need to process and
> make over all administration easier.
>=20
> As for only two subnets, I expect lots of equipment to request
> prefixes in the future not just traditional routers. It will have
> descrete internal components which communicate using IPv6 and those
> components need to talk to each other and the world. In a IPv4
> world they would be NAT'd. In a IPv6 world the router requests a
> prefix.
>=20
> Mark
>=20
> In message <495D0934DA46854A9CA758393724D5906DA244@NI-MAIL02.nii.ads>, =
Erik Sun
> dberg writes:
>> I am planning out our IPv6 deployment right now and I am trying to =
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>> ut our default allocation for customer LAN blocks. So what is =
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>> ng for a default LAN allocation for IPv6 Customers. I guess the idea =
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>> nding a customer /56 (256 /64s) or a /48 (65,536 /64s) just makes me =
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>> e at the waste. Especially when you know 90% of customers will never =
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>> ore than 2 or 3 subnets. As I see it the customer can always ask for =
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>> Pv6 Space.
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>> /64
>> /60
>> /56
>> /48
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>> Small Customer?
>> Medium Customer?
>> Large Customer?
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>> Thanks
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>> Erik
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