Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () americafree tv>]

On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:

> sthaug () nethelp no writes:
>
> > I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need
> > /48s. No, I don't think "that makes all the address assignments the
> > same size" is a particularly relevant or convincing argument.
> >
> > We're doing /56 for residential users, and have no plans to change
> > this.
>
> If we were to give a /48 to every human on the face of the planet, we
> would use about .000025 of the total available IPv6 address space.
>
> You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space.  Our
> children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have
> 99.99999% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry
> 99.9975% that might have been their inheritance were it not for your
> efforts.  Bravo!

It makes a bigger difference if everyone starts using 6RD - to give out a /48 effectively 
requires a  /16, and the number of /16s is by no means approximately infinite. 

Regards
Marshall


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