Current Consensus on IPv6 Customer Allocation Size

[Antonio Querubin]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Mark Blackman wrote:

> More than 256 subnets in the home? Who would want to manage all of that?

> if they ask nicely. Every subnet represents a management burden
> for the end user, if a genuinely separate subnet is required.

The reality is that customers buy multiple off-the-shelf routers and 
expect them to work without intervention.  In the IPv6 world that means PD 
needs to work automatically and recursively among the chained routers. 
Depending on how these devices are nested, and how they do PD, the poor 
router at the end of a long chain may not have a whole lot of /64s to play 
with :)

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Antonio Querubin
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