<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 5:52 PM Gert Doering <<a href="mailto:gert@space.net">gert@space.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">> Independent of the prefix distribution mechanism, it may be worth revisiting<br>
> having a single /48 for an organisation of 40000 employees.<br>
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Sure, but if we start handing out /40s like there's enough of them,<br>
eventually there won't be.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You don't need to hand a /40 to every enterprise that asks for it. The address space necessary can be roughly extrapolated from how much private IPv4 space is in use. There are some numbers to this effect in <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7934#section-9.2">RFC 7934 section 9.2</a>.</div></div></div>