[97058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Advertisements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Stahl)
Thu May 31 11:59:33 2007
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:58:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,
Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1A561D60-6AAA-418E-9C49-FCA14777EB39@delong.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> I don't think ARIN is planning on giving out more less a /48 but more than
>> a /32- at least that was the impression I got. End sites get a /48- ISP's
>> get a /32 or larger- and that's it (I could certainly be wrong). As such,
>> deaggragation in the /48 block should not be an issue because no one will
>> have more than a /48 in the first place.
>>
> Yes, you can get a prefix between /32 and /48 if you can justify it. That is
> certainly
> in line with the policy which resulted from proposal 2005-1.
You are of course correct- I misread "The minimum assignment size is
/48" in terms of prefix length (ie minimum of /48- could be /56, etc.)
which is not what was meant. The very next sentence should have
clarified that for me but I probably skipped over it. mea culpa.
I'm looking forward to seeing a realistic justification from an end user
for more than a /48 :)
As an aside- what is the address block for PI end user assignments from
ARIN? (I can't seem to find it and 2005-1 only mentions a "distinctly
identified prefix" without any mention of what that would be).
The Microallocation blocks are:
Internal Infrastructure: 2001:0506::/31
Exchange Points: 2001:0504::/31
Critical Infrastructure: 2001:0500::/30
(all of which are /48's so far).
But I see no mention of end-user assignments (unless they fall into one of
the above categories- though I don't see how).
-Don
