RE: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

[<michael.dillon at bt.com>]

> I know the reasons behind the /48 etc but it just going to 
> cause us trouble to keep it like that, we should divide the 
> /48 cateogry of users into two:
> - people that can get the current /48 as long as they have 
> more than ONE subnet
> - people that only have ONE subnet, typical home-users 
> (end-users, including your grandmother), they should get a  
> /56 or whatever else bigger than /60 and smaller than /48.

ARIN already has done something like that but the /56 is not for sites
with ONE subnet because IPv6 already defines /64 for that. Instead they
define /56 as the right size for sites expected to need only a few
subnets over the next 5 years. This came about due to requests for a
smaller assignment size for consumer customer, i.e. individual homes and
apartments.

During the discussion it became clear that even if the majority of homes
today only have one subnet, this is likely to change as more categories
of networkable device become available.

--Michael Dillon

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