IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Karsten Elfenbein karsten.elfenbein at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 14:34:15 UTC 2014


2014-10-09 16:22 GMT+02:00 Daniel Corbe <corbe at corbe.net>:
> Has anyone successfully gotten a RIR to assign anything bigger than a
> /32?  I seem to recall in recent history someone tried to obtain a /31
> through ARIN and got smacked down.
>
> Even if you're assigning a /56 to every end user, that's still on the
> order of 16 million allocations.  I can't imagine anyone but the truly
> behemoth access network operators being able to justify a larger
> allocation with a straight face.
>

Ripe is handing out /29 without any additional documentation
current IPv4 usage documentation should do the trick to request larger
blocks for deployment of /48 to customers



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