[arin-ppml] Are we an ISP or an End-User? Can our designation change at a later time?

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Wed Jan 4 20:18:25 EST 2023


On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:10 PM David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2023, at 2:32 PM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> > However, since /48 is also the minimum Internet routable size,
>
> Sorry, what?  Out of 172,457 IPv6 prefixes seen at AMSIX (according to routeviews) on 2023-01-01, counts of prefixes longer than 48:

Sorry, I didn't realize I'd be called out for insufficient pedantry.
The minimum IPv6 size _ubiquitously accepted_ into folks' Internet BGP
tables is /48. As with IPv4's /24 boundary, some folks accept longer
prefixes. As with IPv4, -some- is not enough.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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