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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
Chris Adams <[email protected]> writes: > Once upon a time, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> said: >> I think it makes sense to assign as follows: >> >> /64 for the average current home user. >> /56 for any home user that wants more than one subnet >> /48 for any home user that can show need. > > Dumb question alert: why the 8 bit boundary? That makes sense for IPv4, > where reverse DNS delegation is cumbersome on non-octet boundaries, but > IPv6 reverse DNS can be delegated at the nibble boundary. Why not > assign /60, /52, etc.? A /60 would probably satisfy virtually all home > users (up to 16 subnets) for example. IPv6 is supposed to last a whole lot longer than the current horizon for any of our imaginations, and given the large amount of space in play it seems prudent to err on the side of giving people more rather than less so as to avoid having to revisit this issue later. ---rob
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