[ppml] Policy Proposal 2005-8: Proposal to amend ARIN IPv6 assignment and utilisation requirement - Last Call

[Scott Leibrand]

On 04/15/06 at 10:48pm -0700, Lea Roberts <lea.roberts at stanford.edu> wrote:

> so if the word "recommendations" replaced "guidelines", would it work
> better for you?  i.e.:
>
> The following recommendations may be useful (but they are only
> recommendations):
>
> - /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
>
> how do others feel?  does anyone out there prefer "guidelines"??  :-)

Either "recommendations" or "guidelines" is fine with me.  Either one
expresses clearly enough that ISPs should allocate as much space as might
reasonably be needed, without imposing any undue restrictions on what
exactly the ISPs must do in any given situation.

-Scott