IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 04:24:17 UTC 2014

haha.. email timing delay ......

The follow up question has been answered by a few others there, in their previous emails with appropriate explanations.

Thank you to everyone who responded.

:) 

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
> To: tagno25 at gmail.com
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2014 12:14:57 AM
> Subject: Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
> 
> 
> Fair point....
> 
> just as a follow up question... is giving a /64 to a Residential Customer not
> a good idea, because it would not allow them to have additional routed
> segments ? (since Best Practices is to use a /64 on each link as link
> connectivity address) or is there some other reasoning that I am failing to
> see/ understand ?
> 
> 
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Philip Dorr" <tagno25 at gmail.com>
> > Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:54:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving
> > out
> > 
> > You should probably increase those allocations.
> > 
> > Residential & Small Business Customers:   /56
> > 
> > Medium & Large size Business Customers: /48
> > 
> > Multi-location Business Customer: /48 per site
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
> > wrote:
> > > We are going thru a similar process.. from all of my reading, best
> > > practice
> > > discussions etc..
> > >
> > > Here is what i have understood so far:-
> > >
> > > Residential Customers:   /64
> > >
> > > Small & Medium size Business Customers: /56
> > >
> > > Large Business size or a multi-location Business Customer: /48
> > >
> > > Don't skimp on allocating the subnets like we do on IPv4
> > > Better to be 'wasteful' than have to come back to re-number or
> > > re-allocate
> > > .
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> > > Faisal Imtiaz
> > > Snappy Internet & Telecom
> > 
> 