BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32)

Thu Nov 25 21:04:36 UTC 2004

On 25-nov-04, at 21:20, Ryan O'Connell wrote:

>> Why do people keep talking about 200 sites?  This is a fallacy.

> If you're not assigning IP addresses to other users, (I.e. you're an 
> Enterprise rather than an ISP) you need 200 sites. (As you're 
> "allowed" one /48 per site, and need 200 /48s to get an assignment.)

Untrue. It's "other organizations".

> RIPE policy is pretty much identical to ARIN.

They're all the same. ARIN just slightly changed the wording from the 
common document recently.