[arin-discuss] Trying to Understand IPV6

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> writes:

> 2.	Figure out how many /48s you need in your largest POP.
> 	(Ideally, round up to a nibble boundary, but, there is not RIR
> 	policy to support this (yet)).
>
> 3.	Figure out how many POPs you are likely to have in ~5 years.
> 	(Ideally you'd round this up to a nibble boundary as well, but,
> 	again, RIR policy needs to catch up on this one, it's not quite
> 	there yet).

I would support policy proposals for nybble float-up on both of these
points.  Subnetting or allocating on non-nybble-boundaries is
IPv4-austerity-mode thinking, and needs to be supplanted by
make-it-easy-on-the-engineers-and-noc-team thinking.

-r