Re: Creating an IPv6 addressing plan for end users

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 3/23/11 6:14 AM, Hammer wrote:
> Nathalie,
>       As an end customer (not a carrier) over in ARIN land I purchased a /48
> about a year ago for our future IPv6 needs. We have 4 different Internet
> touchpoints (two per carrier) all rated at about 1Gbps. Recently, both
> carriers told us that the minimum advertisement they would accept PER
> CIRCUIT would be a /48. I was surprised to say the least. Basically a /48
> would not be enough for us. The arguement was that this was to support all
> the summarization efforts and blah blah blah. Even though my space would be
> unique to either carrier. So now I'm contemplating a much larger block.
> Seems wasteful but I have to for the carriers. Have you heard of this
> elsewhere or is this maybe just an ARIN/American thing? Both carriers told
> me that in discussions with their peers that they were all doing this.

there are providers that will accept more specific prefixes from the
customers for internal use. since /48 is the minimum arin allocation
there is observed to be general consensus on not accepting prefixes
longer than /48 into the dfz.

http://www.verizonbusiness.com/Products/networking/internet/ipv6/policy.xml

is one such example of a transit provider that will carry longer
prefixes internally.
>  -Hammer-
>
> "I was a normal American nerd."
> -Jack Herer
>
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> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Schiller, Heather A <
> heather.schiller () verizonbusiness com> wrote:
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> > For those who don't like clicking on random bit.ly links:
> >
> > http://www.ripe.net/training/material/IPv6-for-LIRs-Training-Course/IPv6
> > _addr_plan4.pdf
> >
> >  --Heather
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nathalie Trenaman [mailto:nathalie () ripe net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:05 AM
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Creating an IPv6 addressing plan for end users
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In our IPv6 courses, we often get the question: I give my customers a
> > /48 (or a /56 or a /52) but they have no idea how to distribute that
> > space in their network.
> > In December Sander Steffann and Surfnet wrote a manual explaining
> > exactly that, in clear language with nice graphics. A very useful
> > document but it was in Dutch, so RIPE NCC decided to translate that
> > document to English.
> >
> > Yesterday, we have published that document on our website and we hope
> > this document is able to take away some of the fear that end users seem
> > to have for these huge blocks.
> > You can find this document here:
> >
> > http://bit.ly/IPv6addrplan (PDF)
> >
> > I look forward to your feedback, tips and comments.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> >
> > Nathalie Trenaman
> > RIPE NCC Trainer