IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out

Thu Oct 9 17:15:01 UTC 2014

> > Question:  Should we be asking ARIN for another /32 so that each network
> > has it's own /32  or should be break out the /32 into /36 and use these in
> > each of the geographies ?
> 
> Depends on your needs… Either is a viable solution, depending on your
> circumstances. ARIN has an MDN policy which would facilitate your
> acquisition of a second /32.
>

Thank you Owen, just got off the phone with ARIN, it should be a fairly simple process for us, and we will follow the advice of using a /32 for each geographical location.

The overall discussion has been a very interesting one, and it would appear that the majority of the forward looking opinion is to allocate /48 to customers, and don't do any smaller subnet allocation.

We will take this advice and re-evaluate our policies.

Regards.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, FL 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232

Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: Support at Snappytelecom.net 

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> To: "Faisal Imtiaz" <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
> Cc: "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us>, nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2014 12:20:14 PM
> Subject: Re: IPv6 Default Allocation - What size allocation are you giving out
> 
> 
> On Oct 9, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net> wrote:
> 
> >>> Selection of a default prefix is easy.  Here are the steps.
> >>> 
> >>> 4. Keeping in mind
> >>> 
> >>>        4.1 Prefixes longer than somewhere around /48 to /56 may be
> >>>        excluded from the global routing table
> >> 
> >> 4.1a Prefix cutouts of any size (including /48) from inside your /32
> >> or larger block may be excluded from the global routing table. Folks
> >> who are multihomed and thus need to advertise their own block with BGP
> >> should be referred to ARIN for a direct assignment. Folks who aren't
> >> multihomed, well, until given evidence otherwise I claim there are no
> >> single-homed entities who will use 65,000 LANs, let alone more.
> > =============================================
> > 
> > This brings up another interesting question...
> > 
> > We operate Two separate networks in two geographical locations (Two ASN),
> > we have a single /32 allocation from ARIN.
> > 
> > Question:  Should we be asking ARIN for another /32 so that each network
> > has it's own /32  or should be break out the /32 into /36 and use these in
> > each of the geographies ?
> 
> Depends on your needs… Either is a viable solution, depending on your
> circumstances. ARIN has an MDN policy which would facilitate your
> acquisition of a second /32.
> 
> Owen
> 
>