[arin-discuss] IPv6 End User Assignments

Mike Berger berger at shout.net
Wed May 6 11:05:03 EDT 2009


I would expect a North American ISP to allocate a single IPv6 address 
and charge a huge fee for a subnet for their residential ADSL customers.

Matthew Wilder wrote:
> I have a question about subnet size for end user sites (and a few thoughts as well).
>
> What size of IPv6 subnet would you imagine an ADSL customer (consumer, not business) would get from their ISP?  The NRPM actually has nifty guidelines around subnet assignment here:
>
> /64 when it is known that one and only one subnet is needed 
> /56 for small sites, those expected to need only a few subnets over the next 5 years. 
> /48 for larger sites 
> ...
>
> So, all this back to the original question:
> What kind of IPv6 subnet would YOU expect a North American ISP to assign to their residential ADSL customer?
>   




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