IPv6 and CDN's

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Sun Nov 28 23:51:10 UTC 2021



> On 29 Nov 2021, at 09:41, scott <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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> On 11/28/2021 9:47 AM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
>> Why not properly assign /48s to customers and /40s to cities?
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> Side note: I recently tried to get /48 per customer with ARIN on repeated emails and they refused.  We were already given an IPv6 block a while back.  I told them I wanted to expand it so I could give out a /48 per customer and that we had more than 65535 customers, which is the block we got; 65535 /48s.  I didn't even account for our needs.
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> Without arguing the reasons, we will have to hand out /56s, rather than /48s because of this.  So, it's not all /48-unicorns, puppies and rainbows.
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> scott

Looks like a policy omission.  You should be able to grow the per customer allocation up to /48 per customer.
One shouldn’t be stuck with /56 because one made a bad choice of prefix size initially.

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