IPv6, multihoming, and customer allocations

Sun Mar 14 06:06:56 UTC 2010

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Rick Ernst wrote:

> A /48 seems to be the standard end-user/multi-homed customer allocation and
> is the minimum allocation size from ARIN.  A /32 provides 65K /48s so, in
> theory, we could give each of our customers a /48 and still have room for
> growth.  A /48 also appears to be generally accepted as the the longest
> prefix allowed through filters (although /49 through /54 are also
> discussed).  Most customers, however, won't be multi-homed.

https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#six541

Antonio Querubin
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