Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

Matthew Kaufman matthew at matthew.at
Fri Jul 10 06:33:25 UTC 2015


On 7/9/2015 3:07 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> Can you offer one valid reason not to give residential users /48s? Any benefit whatsoever?
>

Sure. To avoid having to go back and deal with ARIN yet again for more 
IPv6 space.

One of the hopeful outcomes of IPv6 adoption was that an ISP could get 
enough to last "forever" in a single transaction. But "forever" isn't 
very long at one /48 (or more) per customer.

Matthew Kaufman



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