[182080] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Fri Jul 10 02:33:23 2015
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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:33:25 -0700
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 7/9/2015 3:07 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Can you offer one valid reason not to give residential users /48s? Any benefit whatsoever?
>
Sure. To avoid having to go back and deal with ARIN yet again for more
IPv6 space.
One of the hopeful outcomes of IPv6 adoption was that an ISP could get
enough to last "forever" in a single transaction. But "forever" isn't
very long at one /48 (or more) per customer.
Matthew Kaufman
