[arin-discuss] Trying to Understand IPV6

[Joe Maimon]

Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> 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
>
>

I would also support policy that attempts to lessen the divide between 
end users who will never need more addresses and providers who will 
likely need more due to the former.

Joe