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Re: IPv6 Ignorance
From: Blake Dunlap <ikiris () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:14:11 -0500
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Adrian Bool <aid () logic org uk> wrote:
I don't really agree with the "IPv6 think" concept - but let's put that aside for now... The default allocation size from an RIR* to an LIR is a /32. For an LIR providing /48 site allocations to their customers, they therefore have 16-bits of address space available to them to address their customers. So, even in "IPv6 think", homes that typically have one subnet have an equal number of bits to address their single subnet as an LIR has to address all of their customers. It seems illogical to me that we've got an 128-bit address space, featuring numbers far larger than any human can comprehend, yet the default allocation to an LIR allows them to address such a feeble number as 65,536 customers - a number far smaller than the number of customers for medium to large ISPs. The default LIR allocation should be a several orders of magnitude greater than the typical customer base - not a smaller default allocation. Regards, Adrian * At least for RIPE.
Note you say default, as in beginning point, not maximum. -Blake
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance George Herbert (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Jason Leschnik (Sep 28)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Adrian Bool (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance John Mitchell (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Nick Hilliard (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Adrian Bool (Sep 17)
- RE: IPv6 Ignorance Mike Simkins (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Adrian Bool (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance joel jaeggli (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Blake Dunlap (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Mark Blackman (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Matthew Kaufman (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Eugen Leitl (Sep 17)
- RE: IPv6 Ignorance Blake Pfankuch (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance joel jaeggli (Sep 17)
- Re: IPv6 Ignorance Owen DeLong (Sep 17)