IPV6 Minimom alocation for recidential customers

Jeroen Massar jeroen at massar.ch
Tue Aug 20 16:46:38 CEST 2013


On 2013-08-20 16:40 , Arturo Servin wrote:
> 
> 	So it seems that we agree.

No, we do not agree as your statement is wrong.

I suggest you read up on:
 http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-589

and as you claim to work for LACNIC:
 http://lacnic.net/en/politicas/manual5.html

Greets,
 Jeroen

> On 8/20/13 11:36 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>>>> 	It may be some bias from some organizations or individuals in those
>>>> regions, but at the end the decision of using /64, /60, /56 or /48
>>>> depends on the ISP alone.
>> As prefixes are allocated based on the amount of address space one
>> needs, the ISP receives that allocation from RIR based on the intended
>> usage. As such, it is also expected that the space is actually used for
>> those purposes.
>>
>> Next to that there is a very nice IETF recommendation too...
>>
>> If ISPs are just going to give a single /64 to end-sites, then they
>> could just as well just stick with IPv4.



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