IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 04:16:59 UTC 2014

> What is the wisdom / reasoning behind needing to give a /56 to a Residential customer (vs a /64).

What happens when the resident pulls their car into their garage and
their car requests a unique /64 so the various computers on the CAN
can start syncing with the Internet? Car's media center starts
downloading new music, engine controller uploads diagnostics, GPS
navigator starts downloading new maps, etc.

Different example: people like Jim Gettys and Dave Taht are pushing
for consumer routers to start routing between WiFi and Ethernet
instead of bridging the two out of the box, since WiFi tends to fall
over so hard on multicast/broadcast traffic. Suddenly their router
needs two subnets, and either one of them doesn't work, or they have
to live with reduced WiFi performance.
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