[arin-ppml] Automatic IPv6 Eligibility

[John Santos]

Sounds like "no one knows yet, so lets not shoot ourselves in the foot
by underallocating prematurely"

Would it make more sense to allocate a smaller chunk, but sparsely?  If it
turns out the smaller chunk suffices (e.g. a /60* is more than almost
anyone needs), then the remaing 15 /60s** can be allocated to other
users, but if everyone really needs a /56, the existing allocations
can be bumped up in place (no renumbering, just access to a larger block.)

Or is 64 bits so huge that the mind can't cope and everyone really does
need a /48 for home use and this won't force IPv7(?) with 512-bit addresses
before anyone suspects?

Does every proton in the universe need its own subnet?


* or a /56 or whatever

** or the remaining 254 /56's as the case may be



On Thu, 13 Aug 2015, David Huberman wrote:

> ARIN does sparse allocation, where every /32 has 15 more /32s reserved for you (a /28).   Since almost no one really knows what they're doing yet (in my opinion; it's all first generation greenfield deployments we are doing), I say go ahead and give a /48 to each customer and re evaluate in the future when you have more data.  Being liberal with customers is better for them than being overly stingy. And you aren't harming the "free pool" since the first /32 is one sixteenth of what is already held for you.
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> John,
> 
> A /64 is just one network.  Arguments have been made that a smart
> phone "needs" multiple /64's just to run IPv6 much less a "site" or
> building.  The current fight is between a /56 and a /48 for each
> customer as internal networking in v6 is going to happen.  Much
> discussion has been happening on both Nanog and IPv6-ops mailing
> lists.
> 
> James
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:59 PM, John Santos <JOHN at egh.com> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe off-topic, but the recommendation for assigning a /48 to each of
> > the ISP's customers...  Does that apply only to business customers
> > and organizations, etc., or does it also apply to residential customers?
> > Why would a residence (unless they're network hackers like most of us)
> > ever need more than a /64, let alone 2^16 /64's?  I don't see any obvious
> > use case for people subnetting their house or appartment :-)
> >
> > I'm sure this has been discussed to death here and elsewhere.  I've not
> > yet been involved in any large-scale IPv6 deployments (just our lone LAN
> > that easily fits in a IPv4 /24, and doesn't yet have any off-site IPv6
> > connectivity), so I'm trying to internalize IPv6 best practices before
> > screwing up too badly.
> >
> > --
> > John Santos
> > Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.
> > 781-861-0670 ext 539
> >
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John Santos
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