[arin-ppml] V6 address allocation policy

[William Herrin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:56 PM,  <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:
> Wrong. You only get easy renumbering if you give each physical
> location the same fixed length prefix. Every PoP should have
> its own /48 for all internal and infrastructure use. Even if
> it is only a rack in a colo, it is still a separate end site.
> You may someday move everything from that rack into its own
> building, and the /48 numbering scheme that you used from day
> one will make the move simple.
>
> There is no shortage of IPv6 addresses. Assigning a /48 to an
> end-site of any sort is fully justified in the HD ratio
> calculations, etc.

Why not /44, /52, or /56? Why in your master plan must this size be /48?

If your answer involves disaggregating locations from each other, I
refer to to NRPM 6.3.8.

More generally I'll point out that when organizations merge, divide,
consolidate and reorganize they tend to do so by a relatively
arbitrary combination of business function and customer scope, not by
physical location.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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