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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?
Once upon a time, Donald Stahl <[email protected]> said: > It leaves them with 65k subnets to choose from. Would a /56 make more > sense? Right now- sure- becaue we lack the imagination to really guess > what might happen in the future. Nanobots each with their own address, IP > connected everything, who knows? Assigning a /48 to everyone gives > everyone ample room and simplifies provisioning. Do you really think that today's allocations are going to be in use (unchanged) when people are building homes out of IPv6-addressed nanobots, or when people are trying to firewall the fridge from the TV remote, etc.? I understand trying to plan for the future, but if someone is setting all this stuff up, getting a new (and larger) IPv6 block from their ISP is going to be the easiest part in the process. > I'd rather push for /48 and have people settle on /56 than push for /56 > and have people settle on /64. Again, why the hang-up on 8 bit boundaries? Why not /52 or /60? /60 is not much bigger than /64, but /52 gives an end-site 16 times as many subnets as /56 while giving the ISP 16 times as many blocks as /48. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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