[195259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some advice on IPv6 planning and ARIN request, please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Jul 11 09:56:41 2017
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:55:00 -0400
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Thomas Bellman <bellman@nsc.liu.se>
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> If I had 32 departments and were wanting to give them equal sized
> allocations then I'd give them a /53 each which is 2064 subnets
> each. It isn't that hard to do 8 delegations in the reverse tree
> for each of the 32 departments. Delegation on nibble boundaries
> is for convience and nothing else.
>
For comprehensibility which nets convenience. Consistently delegate on
nibble boundaries and your power users don't have to understand Boolean
algebra to make sense of the network.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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