[ppml] IPv6>>32

[Stephen Sprunk]

Thus spake "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> And the policy states that such a situation would be an LIR anyway,
> as they obviously have at least 200 students (external customers)
> subscribing to their IP service.  Voila... They get a /32 anyway.

I agree that's what the letter of the policy states, but I can't imagine
that's what was intended.

Assigning a /48 to each student violates simple common sense.  Yes, I know
there's enough /48s for every human on the planet, but we're going to have
serious problems down the road if we start allocating a /48 for each host,
which is the vast majority of cases in a dorm today and for the conceivable
future.  Burning a /64 per host is bad enough, but I could be convinced to
accept that if Merit said they liked that idea (I personally doubt they do).

Not to mention what actually deploying such a setup would do to the existing
IPv4 addressing plan.  What are the odds ARIN would approve Merit (today,
ignoring their legacy /8) requesting an IPv4 /12 so they could give every
student (38,000 cited elsewhere in the thread) a /29?  That's what we'd be
forcing them to do if they had to provide a subnet per student.

Perhaps some vendor will come out with a whiz-bang device that allows a
shared IPv4 subnet while routing IPv6 natively, but I'm not aware of
anything like that on the market or even proposed for development.

S

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