Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

[Franck Martin <franck () genius com>]

So they can't run their own services from home and have to request premium connectivity from you?

Beside the IPv4 scarcity mentality we have the Telco mentality to fight...

Happy days still ahead...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates () brightok net>
To: sthaug () nethelp no
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:10:35 AM
Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sthaug () nethelp no wrote:
> 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.

+1

This not only makes pop assignments easier, it gives a much larger 
prefix rotation pool. Don't start the flame on rotating prefixes being 
evil. It's my implementation to at least give customers some chance at 
prefix privacy.


Jack