[175117] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Thu Oct 9 10:56:32 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:47:27 +1100
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On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:22 -0400, Daniel Corbe wrote:
> 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.
Legend has it that the US DOD applied for a /8 - 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.
If, as you should be, you are assigning /48s, it's only 65536. Not that
big. That's why it's the *minimum* allocation. Larger allocations are
possible and I suspect quite common.
Regards, K.
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