[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: Open Access To IPv6

[Garry Dolley]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 08:57:03PM -0700, Michael K. Smith wrote:
> Hello All:
> 
> I am in favor of this.  I've been following the comments in the various
> threads and subthreads, and would add only this:
> 
> - There is at least one major transit provider that will accept nothing more
> specific than a /32.

And why do you think that is?

If we give a /32 to anyone who asks for it, I *guarantee* you that
major ISPs will stop accepting /32's.  There will be too many of
them.

They'll take it down to /30s or /24s or something like that.

> - If we continue to inhibit providers' ability to get a /32, they may have
> reachability issues.
> - The v6 space is incredibly large.  Really.  What do we really gain from
> limiting some people to a /48?

The number of addresses in IPv6 is incredibly large, but not the
number of /32 subnets.

Guys, do the math.  There are the same number of /32 subnets in IPv6
as in IPv4.  We are running out of IPv4.

We'll run out of IPv6 if there is no barrier to entry on a /32.

2^32 = 4,294,967,296

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