Customer IPv6 range assignments.

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:40:46PM -0400, Stephen Fulton wrote:
> According to the ARIN documentation we've read, the standard assignment 
> to end-users (whether a single person or a large corporation) should be 
> a /48.  Regardless of the amount of address space available with IPv6, 
> this seems like an awful waste of space.  I'm curious if this policy is 
> still current, or have I mis-interpreted the documentation?  Would we be 
> breaking rules if we assigned a /64 or /56 to a small client?

You're still thinking "IPv4".

The IPv6 way of getting things done is "don't argue, no hassles, no 
discussions about assignment sizes" - and the math allows /48s to 
every customer.

(There are ongoing discussions in all regions on whether to add /56
as an assignment size category, but even then it's no way mandatory -
if an ISP wants, he can always hand out /48s, with no questions asked)

Gert Doering
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