[175110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Corbe)
Thu Oct 9 10:23:14 2014
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From: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:22:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20141009135658.EF0432132042@rock.dv.isc.org> (Mark Andrews's
message of "Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:56:58 +1100")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, manning bill <bmanning@isi.edu>
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Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> writes:
> In message <54366AB9.3040504@gmail.com>, Paige Thompson writes:
>> makes more sense to hand out /48s imho. theres only a mere 65k /48s per
>> /32 (or something like that), though.
>
> A /32 is the minimum allocation to a ISP. If you have more customers
> or will have more customers request a bigger block from the RIRs.
>
> Mark
Has anyone successfully gotten a RIR to assign anything bigger than a
/32? I seem to recall in recent history someone tried to obtain a /31
through ARIN and got smacked down.
Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the
order of 16 million allocations. I can't imagine anyone but the truly
behemoth access network operators being able to justify a larger
allocation with a straight face.
