[175113] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karsten Elfenbein)
Thu Oct 9 10:37:48 2014
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From: Karsten Elfenbein <karsten.elfenbein@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:34:15 +0200
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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2014-10-09 16:22 GMT+02:00 Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>:
> 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.
>
Ripe is handing out /29 without any additional documentation
current IPv4 usage documentation should do the trick to request larger
blocks for deployment of /48 to customers
